Seventeenth-century polynesia underwent severe change brought about by

European colonization.

Explanation:

The European forced the colonization of the lands and they gave a forced slavery, deadly diseases to them. Their settlements were characters by the hamlets' ad the villages. And was commonly found over the entire pacific religion and the the knowledge of the art of the navigation was also lost with the contacts of the Europeans.

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