Economy
The main export of the Marianas for a long time; the dried meat of coconut.
What is copra?
The administration which was highly intertwined with religion, founded by missionaries, and gave some power to the Chamorro chiefs under mission supervision.
What is the Spanish administration?
A rigid social structure that saw the ancient Chamorros divided into three social positions: Matua, Acha'ot, Manachang.
What is a caste system?
The entrepreneur who founded a development Company, which employed thousands of workers to help cultivate and harvest sugar cane.
Who is Haruji Matsue?
Another important export brought during the Japanese administration; famously cultivated and harvested by Haruji Matsue.
What is sugar cane?
A type of society in which kinship, descent, and inheritance are traced through the female line.
What is a matrilineal society?
A Spanish Jesuit who founded the first Catholic church on the island of Guam and established a Christian presence on the islands.
Who is Diego Luis de San Vitores?
What is forced labor?
The administration which saw indirect control, with the Chamorros regaining many rights such as land ownership; often referred to as "the good old days".
What is the German administration?
The native ancestral spirits which inhabit the mountains and wilderness and are known to get angry when disrespected.
What are taotaomo'na?
A Chinese castaway who became a powerful village chief, the first blacksmith in the islands, and spread rumors that the water used for baptism was poisoned.
Who is Choco?
The development company founded by Haruji Matsue in the Marianas to aid in revitalizing the economy, with over 40,000 workers at its peak.
What is the South Seas Development Company?
The area designated in the Pacific post-WWII containing modern day FSM, Palau, CNMI, and Marshall Islands administered by the United States.
What is the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands?
A practice of dyeing one's teeth black seen in many cultures in South East Asia and Oceania often done during puberty.
The first district administrator of Saipan who also conducted historical and ethnological studies of the Chamorros.
Who is Georg Fritz?
What is the Manila Galleon Trade?
This allowed for the transfer of the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and the Caroline Islands to from empire to another empire in 1899.
A branch of science and technology concerned with the purification and use of metals; first seen in the Marianas with Choco.
What is metallurgy?
The Chamorro man who helped killed San Vitores for baptizing his daughter without his permission.
Who is Mata'pang?