Native Hawaiians staged mass protest rallies and formed two gender-designated groups to protest the overthrow and prevent annexation.They hoped that if the U.S. government realized that the majority of native Hawaiian citizens opposed annexation, the move to annex Hawaii would be stopped.
During the period of 1200-1450, the Silk Toad trade networks and the trans- Saharan trade networks facilitated a flourishing trade in luxury goods across afro-eurasia