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Early contact with Europeans had significant effects on Māori culture and way of life. Pre-European Māori society centered around religion, cultivation of kumara, and lacked European concepts of trade and dress. When Europeans first arrived, Māori responded with both curiosity and hostility, sometimes killing settlers but also welcoming others. Over time, European influence grew as Māori adopted Christianity, new crops like potatoes, and lost land to European settlers, while their traditional weapons, living situations, tools and cultural practices like tapu also changed substantially to grow more similar to European ways of life.
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Group 2 Slide Share
- 1. The Effects of Early European Contact and the Responses of Māori
- 2. What was Pre European New Zealand like? Most Maori women were half naked. There was no tradings. They only have one religion. Kumaras were their main cultivation.
- 3. How did Maori respond to the early Europeans? The Maori’s were curious. They killed some of them and welcomed others. They attacked the Europeans
- 4. What were the effects of early Europeans on Maori? Māori became Christians through the European Missionaries. Māori learnt how to grow crops like potatoes from the Europeans. Māori land was lost and bought by the Europeans. Māori way of fighting and weaponry changed and became more like the Europeans. Māori rights were abused. Māori had to change their place of living. Māori replaced many of their tools for Pakeha tools. Māori tapu was broken by the Europeans. Māori way of living was changed.