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Enlightenment
What it is?
The Enlightment is a period of time in European history which occurred between 18th and 17th century. The enlightment was a time when a man Isaac newton gave reason that humans should question the world and things around them. This theory was called the enlightment.
What happened?
The enlightment challenged the thought of the middle ages and the kings and queens who thought religion was the only answer to life and that everyone should be religious -
Enlightenment
What was affected?
I believe the church community and the Royalties were affected because people would have been questioning if the beliefs they had been told were true or not. This would have brought up and lot of trouble among the people of these times.
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/enlightenment_age.html
http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/the_enlightenment.htm -
Period: to
1750-1918
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James Cook's Discovery of the East Coast
James Cook is a famous explore he was the man who discovered the Australian East coast in 1770. He extended the land bounders of the British empire into the southern hemisphere. In 1788 the British finally settled in Sydney. Sydney then became part of the new emerging world. The land in Australia was not very fertile so it was not too good for growing crops so many people starved. It took a long time for fresh foods to arrive up to 6 months. Bring in fresh food brought a risk as small animals li -
Native Australian's
Native Australians also known as aboriginals have dark coloured skin and where the first people to settle in Australia. The Aboriginal people are believed to have come from Africa, they were first discovered by the British on the 28 of April 1770 when Captain James cook arrived in botany bay. When the British invaded Australia it caused a lot of trouble there were main fights and damage was made too many. aboriginal heritage sites and artefacts. I think the British had a very negative impact. -
Convicts
The movement of the convict to Australia had a very big impact on Australia for the good and bad. The good impact was Australia started to develop as a new country but the British started destroying parts of Australia which was special to the indigenes Australians. -
Convicts
A convict is a person who has been imprisoned for not following the law. On the 25th of January 1788 the English government decided to ship over the entire population of England’s convicts to Australia. All the convicts were sent over on a massive vestal called the first fleet. The British always sent there prisoners to America but in 1783 America refused to accepted any more prisoner and needed to find somewhere else to send them. The British then decided to send them to Australia. -
The First Fleet
The first fleet is the name given to the first eleven ships that sailed off to Australia from England. The ships left the port with about 700 convicts and over 1000 people total across the 11 ships they were pact. Once the convicts arived in australia they were taken to camps were they lived a misreable life were they were worked very hard as slaves. The work the did was manly clearing land,cutting down trees, building house, looking after animals and planting crops, -
The First Fleet
The convicts work hard for long periods of time in the hot australian sun. The convicts werent treated well the food and clothing they ate and wore were very bad quality. They didnt eat much food as it took long periods of time for fresh food to arrive. -
Free Settlers
Free settlers are people that choose to migrate from England to Australia in search of a new begging. From the 16 of January 1792 free settlers have been arriving in Australia. The reason most people moved to Australia as free settlers is because they want to start a new life. Life as a free settler wasn’t the best they had come from a developed country to a country unfamiliar to them. Australia was full of different animals, plants, climate, soil and people. -
Free Settlers
The Free Settlers caused a lot of trouble with the indigenous people of Australia. Although the Free settlers had to deal with this they were treated very well by the British and were given big amounts of land which convicts would work on for them to build house and harvest crops. -
Port Philip Distric (Victoria)
When Port Phillip district of New South Wales was separated as a colony in 1851. It was named after the queen of the united kingdom Victoria. They first attempted to settle the area around port Philip bay occurred in 1803. -
Van Dieman's Land
Tasmania got its name from a Dutch seafarer explorer called Abel Janszoon Tasman. This colony was established as a settlement for the worst convicts. Those who escaped took the life of a bushranger. In 1830 another penal colony was established nearby at Port Authur. -
South Australia
William Light was appointed surveyor general and he design the city of Adelaide the grid street patterns and the green wedges of the parklands. By late 1835 more new settlers had arrived and the first grape vines had been planted. South Australia got its name porously because it was in the south of Australia. -
Kaiser Wilhelm
Kaiser Wilhelm was a German emperor in 1888. He was a strong supporter of German imperialism and nationalism. He wanted to improve the German military and navy to be as strong as other nations. He had a great effect on Germany at the time. -
Franz Ferdinand
Arch duke Franz Ferdinand was air to the Astro-Hungaria thrown before he died alongside his wife on the 24th of June, on his way to the town hall when he was shoot by a young Bosnian man. The death of arch duke franz ferdinade was part of the build up to world war 1. -
Gallipoli
The battle of Gallipoli occurred on the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire on the 25 of April 1915 to 9 January 1916. Many countries fought at Gallipoli including Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and Britain. The Australian army arrived in ships on the shores of Gallipoli one mile too far north due to really strong tides and winds to be ambushed by the Turks. The terrain was open and hilly and the turks had already set up a ambush for th aussie and many died. -
