1. When did Captain Cook reach Hawai'i?
2. What happened to him?
3. Who wrote the first description of surfing?
4. Why is surfing called the Sport of Kings?
5. When did the migration of humans out of Asia and into the Eastern Pacific begin?
6. What are the three points of the Polynesian triangle?
7. When did the Polynesians arrive in Hawai'i?
8. What type of boards were used by Tahitians and then brought to Hawai'i?
9. What type of surfing was invented or perfected in Hawai'i?
10. How were new surfborads christened?
11. How was Hawai'ian life regulated?
12. What were the two social classes in Hawai'i?
13. What kinds of boards did commoners ride?
14. What were the boards of the ali'i called and how long could they be?
15. Why was a surf spot at Waikiki called Kalehuaweke?
16. Why did surfing decline after Cook's voyage to Hawai'i?
17. What did James Houstona and Ben Finney write about the decline of surfing?
18. How did Calvinist missionaries help discourage surfing?
19. What was the native population size in Captain Cook's time? What was it by 1896?
20. What happened when nativde Hawai'ans tried to take back control of their kingdom in 1898?
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