Notes

What were the Musket Wars?
Tribal conflict
Weapons and tactics
First contact with Europeans
Continuing Inter-tribal war, to 1815
Fighting increases, 1816-1820
Organised tribes: two great amiowhenua (round the land) taua, and conquest of Kawhia
Hongi Hika in England
Explosion of fighting with muskets
Beginning of cultural change among Ngapuhi
Bloody fighting in the South
Continuing tangle of war: Waikato to Bay of Plenty
Two local squabbles
Calls for help and transformation of a culture
Consequences