SOST Treaty Of Union

21/11/19, Thursday

SOST Write That Essay

r14/11/19, Thursday

Historians argue that understanding the causes of significant events are much more important than just remembering dates, facts and figures about things in the past. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, creating an agreement between the Maori and the British. The Treaty of Waitangi was needed to maintain peace and construct laws between the Maori and British in New Zealand. Despite the treaty happening in the 1840s, it remains important in Aotearoa.

In the 1830s in New Zealand, a lot of lawless behaviour was happening in Kororareka also known as Russell Bay due to the lack of law and rules. Before the treaty was established there were a lot of diseases, prostitution and fights between the whalers, since there were no rules preventing them. The Maori are taking all of the damage caused by the whalers who arrived in Kororareka. The treaty was needed to prevent all of the lawlessness and to create trade laws between both parties.

The missionaries were trying to help the Maori protect their rights. This is important to building the treaty because it gives the Maori more reasons to sign the treaty, it also builds trust between the two parties. Some of the things they did to gain the trust of the Maori are they taught them how to read and write Te Reo, they shared farming techniques and introduced new technology to them and the missionaries bought land from the Maori as trustees. When the trade was made, it helped the missionaries and Maori strengthen their friendship and it helps the Maori establish their rights, therefore, giving the Maori sign the treaty easily.

Maori tribes were forced to trade crops and flax for muskets in order to fight back, the Maori used the Muskets to either fight other Maori tribes or get revenge and over 20,000 people were killed because of the musket wars. In this paragraph, I’m trying to prove that when the muskets were introduced, wars became more often between the Maori. After the muskets were introduced the land boundaries in New Zealand changed. A balance of power was created between the tribes when they got access to muskets. The Musket Wars caused more violence and deaths since there were no laws to restrain the trading of muskets. The treaty helped this situation by providing laws around the trading if muskets.

Was there anything in place before the Treaty of Waitangi? Interestingly, there was something place called the Declaration of Independence. It was signed on October 28, 1835, in the home of James Busby. With the Declaration, the Maori could trade in legal terms since they have a flag and they could express their Rangatiratanga, it made the Maori an independent country under the authority if United Tribes of New Zealand. After the Declaration was signed, a meeting was supposed to take place but the Maori didn’t attend the meeting. No laws and rules were created to protect the Maori as agreed to in the Declaration. Trading would be harder since they don’t have a flag to represent themselves. The Treaty was needed to create new laws to protect the Maori.

SOST Maori and European Population Graph

4/11/19, Monday

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1. What does the Graph show us?
     The graph shows us that the population of the Maori people is slowly declining while the Europeans are slowly growing throughout the years.

2. Why do you think the numbers of Maori change?
     It may be caused by strong earthquakes and wars. It is also very hard to survive because of the tribes fighting each other.

3. Why do you think the numbers of Europeans change?
    I think it's because of their economy. Europeans were able to trade a lot with people in another country this can be the cause of their growing population more material and food made them survive longer.

SOST Tangaroa God Of The Sea

18/10/19, Friday

Tangaroa by Reign Reyes
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Tangaroa is the Maori god of the sea. Interestingly, there are different gods in different cultures but they also have the same ideas, the idea that gods rule different things. For Ancient roman, we have Neptune, for Ancient Greek, we have Poseidon and for Hindu, we have Varuna.

SOST Essay Writing

09/26/19, Thursday
Describe ways in which technology has changed over time. Explain how it is different from the technology we use today.
Technology has changed over time over time. In this essay, I will discuss the technology used by Romans, Egyptians and Cavemen. The technological advances include the creation of hieroglyphics, aqueducts and stone tools. These examples are gonna show how technology has advanced over time and how it’s different from our present technology.

Communication and writing are very important for humans a done of the earliest communication and writing is the hieroglyphics. You can see Hieroglyphics across Eqypt, the Rosetta stone that is filled with Hieroglyphics was found in 1799. This is important because without all of this we won't have a way to communicate and understand each other, hieroglyphics mainly used pictures as a way of telling what it is instead of the letters that we used today. Hieroglyphics used pictures to represent a letter while we use letters themselves.

   Aqueducts were built by the ancient Romans to deal with plumbing and to be able to get water. The ancient Rome aqueducts were big and spread out tunnels were used to deliver water through lines and bridges and then all across the valley. Compared to the modern plumbing which is smaller and could travel across everything, the modern plumbing was more complex with two separate subsystems one that delivers freshwater and one that takes wastewater out. We can see the difference between Ancient Rome's aqueducts and modern plumbing.

     Tools are helpful and can help us survive through tough times. The cavemen were able to develop tools that made them much powerful and live a longer life with the tools they made. They mainly used stones and sticks, they sharpen both the stones and sticks to make a weapon that could pierce through the skin. The modern tools we have today can be made out of different kinds of metals and are stronger and we have more materials we can use, we developed new long-ranged weapons like guns. Over time we developed different kinds of weapons and tools that helped us against predators.

This essay showed how technology evolved and the difference between modern technology and past technology. Hieroglyphics developed with a simple more version but many words were created. Aqueducts evolved to smaller and much more complex routes. Tools were made with stronger and longer-lasting materials. These are the ways technology evolved to what it is now.