What does the graph show us?
In 1836 Maori population easily outnumbered the European population for 20 years the Maori population being 100k to 100. The Maori population began to decline from 1846 till 1881 where the population stabilized at 20 000 throughout the next 10 years from 1886 to 1896. From 1896 to 1901 the Maori population increased by 5000. While the Maori population was decreasing European populations were increasing rapidly. Europeans had a population of 100 for 10 years before starting to increase in 1846 to 10 000, from there on European populations skyrocketed reaching 790 000 people in 1901.
Why Do you think Maori numbers dropped?
Maori numbers began to drop when european population began to rise, this is because of the trading system between races, the maori provided the europeans with food and other survival resorces in return europeans would trade them muskeets with would aid the maori in war. Hence the muskeet wars began and thousands of maori people died fighting for land and utu.
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