HWST EXAM 2 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) what was the doctrine of discovery? - Correct Answers ✅status of "human" was based on religion why was the doctrine of discovery significant in terms of European colonization? - Correct Answers ✅indigenous groups could not claim land. European Christian groups had right over non-Christian upon "discovery" if Europeans who was the first European to enter the Pacific? What year? - Correct Answers ✅Vasco Nunez de Balboa-1513 What fueled European exploration in the Pacific? - Correct Answers ✅search of the "Northwest passage" and "Terra Australis" Diffusionism - Correct Answers ✅spread of culture between individuals and cultures How did Europeans view Polynesians as a result of Eurocentric beliefs? - Correct Answers ✅They thought the were degenerated descendents of themselves
Identify different views of Polynesians:
Noble savage, semitic Polynesian, Aryan/Caucasian
Polynesian - Correct Answers ✅noble savage: child-like
innocence, lived with ease 1 / 3
HWST EXAM 2 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)
semitic Polynesian: Polynesians seen as descendents of one
of 12 tribes of Israel.
Aryan/Caucasian Polynesian: intellectual colonialism of
indigenous people and land.imperialism - Correct Answers ✅exploitation of country and people.
First contact:
how did Australians view the Native population? - Correct Answers ✅Racist, "kill them before they kill us"
First Contact:
In what ways were the natives exploited by the Australians? - Correct Answers ✅Australians traded shells for work to Natives= EXPLOITATION What was Cook searching for when he first came to Hawaii? - Correct Answers ✅Northwest Passage What year did Cook arrive in Hawaii and what did he name it?
- Correct Answers ✅1778- The Sandwich Islands
According to Herb Kawainui, who was responsible for making Cook a God? - Correct Answers ✅Europeans 2 / 3
HWST EXAM 2 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What Hawaiian God was Cook mistaken for by Kanaka? - Correct Answers ✅Lono because he arrived during the Makahiki season How did Hawaiians determine that Cook wasn't a God? - Correct Answers ✅He wrote a false journal, he committed violence, destroyed chiefs' homes after theft of his goat, and killed Ali'i Explain how Cook's image as an enlightened European explorer is misleading - Correct Answers ✅ Why is Cook's legendary persona considered by critics to be more myth than legend? - Correct Answers ✅ According to Hawaiian tradition, why was Cook killed? Date and place of death? - Correct Answers ✅Killed chief Kalimu, attempted to kidnap Kalani'opu'u with accusation of Hawaiians stealing February 14, 1779 on island of Hawaii What island is Kamehameha from? - Correct Answers ✅Hawaii
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