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How did Samoan migration influence government in the southern islands of Kiribati?

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Around the 14th century CE, an influx of migrants from Samoa arrived in the southern islands of what is now Kiribati. Following this migration, the islanders adopted a gerontocratic style of government, which is a system based on rule by elders.21