Answer:
The population history of the island remains highly controversial. In addition to internal conflict, the population crash has been attributed to “ecocide,” in which the Island's resources were exhausted by its inhabitants, reducing its ability to support human life.
Explanation:
Europeans was known to discovered Easter Island in 1722 and it's name was given by Captain Admiral Jacob Roggeveen.
The human population growth had a negative effect on the Easter Island.
The ecocide hypothesis is the one explanation to how the human population increased exponentially since its colonization and as such
Human populations did over increased the carrying capacity of the Island to support sustainable crops, and in consequence, the island was severely deforested.
The island's natural cycling of matter and energy also reduced or change and as such the people fought among themselves for scarce resources of the island. They had little food and were starving and they resorted to cannibalism.
The island was also plaque by blackbirding from 1862 to 1863.
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