How did Captain James Cook die?
Correct answer: He was attacked and killed by the Hawaiians
Uninitialized
He and his men treated the natives as utilities at best. His actions were reprehensible. Many of the early explorers had the same mentality.
RushMama2112
Be fair to the Hawaiians, it wasn't that one-sided.
StationaryStreet4
He had it coming.
Player #3196549
ConsequentDessert10, a cutter is a long boat these boats get sailors to shore from the ship.☺
Player #21374632
TrivialJournal9, white explorers gave American Indian Tribes diseases also and it killed many, so many, then took their beautiful territory .
Big Blue Champs
Captain Bligh from the Mutiny on the Bounty served under Cook.
bribiepete
Player #3598663, measles, mumps, chicken pox etc. Natives had no immunity. So many indigenous peoples worldwide have died from what were European diseases at the time.
mammy1027
they were the invaders
Player briwhi
JiggsCasey, Please remember context. I have an issue with current judgements being made about decisions taken 100 or more years ago. Obviously there were many who had issues with the treatment of other nationals. The UK outlawed slavery without a war decades before the USA so the majority of their Parliament must have taken a liberal view even back then.
munro
Player briwhi, Hawaii people existed before Lord Sandwich.
Biological/Mojo
Dayrell, No Man. he didn't bring all these latest albums
and disease control. the
Aboriginal elders got sick
from weakened Immunity
to bacteria passed during
Confrontation 😢 Frick'n
Sad as days Frick . now is ok
Biological/Mojo
Ulrich, Pauline Hanson will
Sign of on that keeper ;
Intolerant Minds
Biological/Mojo
Foncilla, Well isn't That a wreck less encounter,
Ulrich
Jenny, an Australian friend who was at school in the 70s and 80s told me the government motto of Australia was "A white Australia"
Ulrich
Player briwhi, I don't.
The social mores of the past may EXPLAIN behavior but they do not EXCUSE it.
For example from the US, there were plenty of people alive at the time who were not ok with this enslavement or genocide of cultures found while "exploring", nee looting, the parts of the world they were unfamiliar.
There plenty of abolitionists in the US during the time of slavery and I forgive No one who can forgive the abuses of the past.
Gloria
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Jenny
Gary_Melbourne, probably you mean "the first European" to discover Australia. Indigenous folk had been living here for 65,000 years before either Dutch, English or Portuguese arrived.
Jenny
At primary school in the 1970s we were taught Captain Cook was a hero who "discovered" Australia. Indigenous Australians were scarcely mentioned in those days, but slowly things are changing. History needs to acknowledge everyone who was there at the time, not just white and powerful people!
Me_Myself_&_Pete
Good job Hawaiian!! 👍👍
Raina
really memorials, he caused destruction
Dayrell
Cook was a hard edged man who like many of the European EXPLORERS brought diseases n Superiority ignorance of THEIR customs n ways
Foncilla
Cook infected the Hawaiians with syphilis when he landed in 1778 the first time on the leeward side of Kaua’i at Waimea. When he retuned from the Pacific Northwest one year later and landed on Hawai’i Island at Kealakekua Bay, the syphilis had “traveled” by canoe to all 8 inhabited Islands. Cook left a path of destruction.
Dee
Player briwhi, I think GB wanted to distance themselves from the mess they created.
Player #27990969
Uninitialized, it's awesome how you know the minds of explorers and don't just put them alongside conqueres.
R+T#1/2 o+b#45/46
bribiepete, Columbus was from Genoa, Italy. He sailed under a Spanish flag.
Player Glamingo60
There’s a little ditty sung in the Islands about “serving him up with a little poi.”
OanaChris
The same happened to Magellan, but in the Philippines.
Player #25874027
In a question on Bligh in this game it states while Cook was retreating he trapped his leg and drowned
Fun guy
not the best diplomat though..
Tetris_Blitz
Aww well, good bye to James Cook
Mari
and maybe eaten !
Player #20461174
the Hawaiians not only kill him but most of his crew, and its WASNT painless captain James Cook was cannibalized so sure it wasn't "one sided" and he did provoke them be come on.. no one deserves to get eaten..
urtrippin2
Learned that from Drunk History on Comedy Central!
Soleil
always choose the long answers😉
Player #3598663
TrivialJournal9, What is a White man's disease?
Player #1726427
Of tuberculosis
Player briwhi
( Snail Darter), I think liberty boat referred to a Navy ship's leave boat for sailors going ashore.