Noah Dolim

in which that diplomatic trip in the 1840s secured international recognition from the United States, Britain, and France as well.

And actually prior to whaling, you had sandalwood, the collection of sandalwood, which is a native tree here in Hawaii.

But it was found that Hawaiians actually didn't really use sandalwood at all.

But it was prized in the Chinese market because it was used as incense.

So that really became like the first export of the Hawaiian islands is sandalwood.

And then you transition to whaling, which again brings in more of these people coming in and out and connecting the Atlantic.

to the Pacific as well.

Because a lot of those whaling ships were coming out of New England, bringing foreigners to Hawaii, bringing Hawaiians into other places in the world around, you know, into China, into the Pacific Northwest, back to New England and the East Coast.

So again, it was a world that was rapidly changing and rapidly broadening.

So the Hawaiian monarchy had to adjust to those changes and build those relationships with other countries and other peoples.

And one of the reasons why the Hawaiian kingdom went from absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy is that because now you have these foreigners settling in Hawaii, how do you make foreigners follow your laws?

You have to make laws that were, you know, legible.

Right.

in all sense of that word to these foreigners to make them respect hawaiian law yeah make them fall under order and so yeah our the hawaiian constitution based off of british and american the american constitution and legal system but also taking parts of hawaiian traditional hawaiian rulership as well so you mentioned the house of nobles which was the upper house or or in like

In our modern vernacular, we'd call it like the senators of Hawaii.

That was really just what we call the Aho'olelo or the Aho'oli'i, which was a chiefly council that existed prior to the constitution.

And they just took that body of chiefs and moved them and became the House of Nobles.

So these were the high-ranking chiefs of the kingdom.

And then the bottom house, the House of Representatives, was the House of the Peoples, the commoners basically.

Yes, it does.