The Musket Wars were a series of as many as three thousand battles and raids fought across New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, among Maori between 1806 and 1845, after Maori first obtained muskets and then entered an intertribal arms race to gain territory or avenge past defeats. The fighting killed between twenty thousand and forty thousand people and enslaved tens of thousands more, including roughly three hundred Moriori killed and about seventeen hundred enslaved on the Chatham Islands, and it reshaped tribal territorial boundaries across the country before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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CombatantsVarious Maori tribes, with Ngapuhi among the first to obtain muskets 1 OutcomeTerritory gained and lost between various tribes; tribal boundaries significantly altered 1 Classification
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1. Musket Wars - Wikipedia
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The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for past defeats.
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The battles resulted in the deaths of between 20,000 and 40,000 people and the enslavement of tens of thousands of Māori and significantly altered the rohe, or tribal territorial boundaries, before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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The battles resulted in the deaths of between 20,000 and 40,000 people and the enslavement of tens of thousands of Māori and significantly altered the rohe, or tribal territorial boundaries, before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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