Pomare II imposed Christianity on Tahitians through military-political consolidation after his 1815 baptism.

Evidence

The breakthrough came in 1815, when the paramount chief Pomare II accepted baptism and subsequently imposed Christianity on his subjects through military-political consolidation. The Pomare conversion — structurally comparable to the Kongo conversion of 1491 (Episode 63) and the Mansa Musa Islamization of Mali (Episode 62) — was a strategic-diplomatic choice by a Polynesian ruler seeking alliance with a powerful external patron. — , The Rod and the Child, 5274

Categorization

• XREF: Structural parallel to Kongo 1491 and Mali’s Mansa Musa — a recurring pattern of elite strategic conversion.