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I am not sure when you consider New Zealand to have "come into existence", but wouldn't the Musket Wars and the New Zealand Wars contradict this? https://en.wi
by martey 10y ago
I am not sure when you consider New Zealand to have "come into existence", but wouldn't the Musket Wars and the New Zealand Wars contradict this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Wars
- wallace_f 10y agoYou know when it comes down to it, you're probably right that NZ was not an exception. Violence was inevitably going to be a part of its sovereignty However, a couple things about those citations 1 - to the best of my knowledge the musket wars predominately were inter-tribal warfare b/w Maori. Basically Europeans gave them muskets and they turned them on each other. 2 - the NZ Wars actually occurred after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, which occurred in 1840, and is the same year when NZ was claimed as a sovereign country.