Ancient Tahitian Culture

Decent Essays
Christian Chin
ISS 1:30
Saculla
October 7, 2015
Tahitian Warfare
Tahitian culture had many unique traditions that help make up their culture. They also use a lot of unusual or distinctive tactics to some activities or traditions. Some things that make up the Tahitian culture are things we do or see everyday but differs from how they did it before. Some of these activities were marriage, fishing, agriculture, and warfare. In war they used different strategies, weapons, clothing, and traditions. Warfare was an important part of ancient Tahitian culture because it settled conflicts, helps the tribes have faith in the Gods, and helped the citizens economically with weapon making. Warfare helped settle arguments between tribes. In ancient

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