When reading about euro colonization of small places like Pacific islands I always wonder: why didn't they just kill them? When you see something like those polynesian fat fucks who couldn't even do anything and their islands developed no economic activity other than being geographically strategic (so no muh labor excuse like in the Americas). Was it just christcukery telling colonizers all lives are valuable o algo?A group like the maori should've just been killed.
>>521043982>(((economic activity)))Hahahahahahaha. Okay Timmy. What's your income tax rate again?
>>521043982The islanders were generally friendly and happy to trade with euros. When you're on a ship for 3 months, it's a great resource to stop at these islands and trade for fresh water, food, etc. You should read some history from early explorers who stopped in the Hawaiian islands, it's quite fascinating. It was generally more beneficial for both sides to be amicable trade partners than for euros to try and take over the land and try to survive on it as essentially a trading outpost in the middle of nowhere. It's not like they were sitting on super valuable resources like gold anyways. It wasn't until they figured out they could grow sugar on the islands that they started getting serious about colonizing and killing the local leadership. And at that point it's better to keep some locals around as slaves rather than completely repopulate with imported labor which would be much more expensive
