he first Hawaiians ran late. Sumner La Croix claims they first voyaged from the Society Islands around 1250 when Kublai Khan was a boy rather than, as some others have it, twelve centuries earlier while Christ was awaiting death and resurrection. Discovery fed flood, with the long century that followed bringing new waves of immigrants to fill the land, before changing ocean currents slammed the door closed on economic migrants for four hundred years.
The fertile fields and taro's hydraulic agriculture produced the surpluses that enabled the organized state: chieftain rule underpinned by the props of ideology and entertainment. “Bread” fed “church and circus” with adepts at prayer and monument construction, artists, sportsmen and war.
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