WikiCards · Card list · History cards · Musket Wars
Uncommon card · History
Musket Wars, an Uncommon card
The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand 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.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 61,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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.
- The Musket Wars reached their peak in the 1830s, with smaller conflicts between iwi continuing until the mid-1840s, some historians argue the New Zealand Wars were a continuation of the Musket Wars.
- The increased use of muskets in intertribal warfare led to changes in the design of pā fortifications, which later benefited Māori when engaged in battles with colonial forces during the New Zealand Wars.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Musket Wars article was read about 61,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Musket Wars
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More History cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Musket Wars in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Mary FordUncommon · Arts · ATK 66 DEF 60
- TrafficUncommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 50
- Fermentation in food processingUncommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 61
- Richard PrinceUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 57
- IntiUncommon · History · ATK 63 DEF 63
- Metal detectorUncommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 52
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- History cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Musket Wars (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1816-1854., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.