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110,000 BCE
First Footsteps...or not
There is evidence of 'humans' in Australia 110000 years ago but nothing to support the claim. -
Period: 110,000 BCE to 50,000 BCE
First Footsteps
The first Aboriginals to step foot here... or not. -
90,000 BCE
Ends of the Earth
90 000 years ago famine struck Africa for the first time. As well as this disease struck. The seasons seemed out of order and numbers were few. A group of pioneers gathered and set the journey to the ends of the earth. No modern being had left Africa before. They journeyed down the coast, thousands of years... until all they saw was sea... and then they ventured on... -
80,000 BCE
Canal Crossing
All they saw was sea... nothing beyond the naked eye. But these homo sapiens never gave up. The made the first open canal crossing in history. We're not sure how they did it, but there is no denying that these were tough survivors. -
80,000 BCE
Challenge Accepted
Aboriginals were faced with giant emus, wombats, Dino-like creatures but most of all the unforgivable climate. The soaked aboriginals journeyed on. Over hundreds of years their clans developed... then they advanced... -
65,000 BCE
Living in the Dreamtime
Thousands of years had passed, a woman had made bread, but some clans didn't have enough. They decided to tell a story. They told and exaggerated their everyday life, and passed it on to their children. This became the dreamtime... -
50,000 BCE
Clans of God
God was in some clans everyday life. Some clans had a spiritual connection to him through the environment, God was represented as the 'spirits' in dreamtime stories. The clan leader helped strengthen the connection with the spirits, because of this they were greatly honored. One of these was Mungo Man. A respected clan leader 42,000 years ago, he was preserved by his children. -
Period: 50,000 BCE to 25,000 BCE
Aboriginal Advancement
The aboriginal culture had already flourished by now and was not stopping. -
45,000 BCE
Tech of the Future
45,000 years ago aboriginal culture started to progress. Now there were many people and many clans. Their culture florished. One of these inventions was the 'axe'. It cut down trees and even cut through stone. They had an advanced system of Agriculture by now. -
25,000 BCE
Fall of Farming
Agriculture in Europe and Asia were just starting, but the advanced agriculture of the aboriginals was changing. The climate was changing with human advancement, and once again, like 50,000 years ago, the seasons were out. Crops were withering and stone tools breaking but that didn't stop them. -
Period: 25,000 BCE to
Sage Survival
The seasons were out. The land was dry. How did they survive? -
20,000 BCE
Climate Chaos
Clans were falling apart. The Aboriginals had to find some way to survive this new heat, so they used it to their advantage. They scrapped their traditional Agriculture and tools, and made a new culture. -
Dutch Down Under
The Dutch stepped foot on Australia in 1606, followed by many more Europeans. All of these were just pioneers, not conquerors. There are even detailed paintings of ships and ghosts in caves. -
Final Conquerors
Finally someone conquered the land down under. That was the British, in 1788. 10 years earlier Captain James Cook had 'discovered' it and now the British were sending all their troops and convicts down under. -
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Loaned Land
Conflict broke out. It was Aboriginals VS British. Who would win? -
Conflict Erupts
It took time for the aboriginal to realise that the white men were superior, and then they called for war. Smallpox had already erupted in the clans, killing half the population, and they weren't letting any more fall to their fate. But their spears were no match for guns, and they were left with a quarter of their original population. -
Colonised
This was too much. They were forced to surrender. The guns shot them down, they had lost so much already. Retaliating meant having their race destroyed. So the time began. White people massacred Aboriginals with no vengeance. -
Treasures and Turmoil
The Turmoil took it too far, the British took the Aboriginals greatest treasures, their children. They stole them and put them in 'boarding homes' and death was not uncommon. Their race was decreasing... -
Speech of Blame... or not?
Kevin07. The first, and last, prime minister to publicly recognise the aboriginals. But what did he do? Just give a speech? No, he did something more then that. He raised the aboriginal flag on bridges over the country, and ended their turmoil.
