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Jan 1, 1492
European Discovery
With the european discovery of americans in 1492 a new world was born. there wasnt anything new about the world that had been inhabitened by other peoples for thousands of years prior the arrival of europeans tribal groups in the north and south america and australia are sometimes reffered to as the first nations -
Aborigional People
The British had hoped to assimilate the Aboriginal peoples into the British culture and make them work in the new colony. At first, the Aboriginal peoples avoided the British settlers; but as the number of settlers increased and more land was being taken, contact became unavoidable. -
Convicts
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Free Settlers
In almost every real historical case, settlers live on land which previously belonged to long-established peoples, known as indigenous people. In some cases such as Australia, the legal ownership of some lands is contested much later by indigenous people, who seek or claim traditional usage, land rights, native title and related forms of ownership or partial control. -
The Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was a cultural movement of intellectuals in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was to reform society to challenge ideas that were in tradition and faith and advance. The church started to lose its power and the normal people had more rights and more freedom. -
Enlightenment
individualism started to take more of a place rather than tradition and people had the potential to make the best world possible. -
Adelaide
The colony became a cradle of democratic reform in Australia. The Parliament of South Australia began in 1857, when the colony was granted self-government. Votes for women came in the 1890s. South Australia became a state of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 following a vote to Federate with the other British colonies of Australia. While smaller than the Eastern states, South Australia has often been at the vanguard of political and social change in Australia. -
Making of a Nation
On the first of january 1901. Australia had a vote on weather they should become a seperate nation to brittan. They all voted yes and that was the beggining of the commonwealth of Australia. -
What a Nation Needs (list)
Things you would need:
• Constant Food Supply
• Constant Water Supply
• Shelter
• Leaders
• Democracy
• Education
• Transportation
• Income
• Population
• Land
• Communication
• Military
• Defence
• Medical
• Flag
• Professionals
• Currency
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. -
Aborigionals in WW1
In the beginning of World War 1 the Aboriginal/ Torrens straight island people were treated like animals. They were left in the bush to survive for themselves and were not considered Australian Citizens. Around half way through the war the Australian troops were lowering greatly about a ¼ to ½ of the population that went to the war and no one was willing to enlist like they were in the beginning. see part 2 -
Aborigoinals in WW1 Part 2
So the Australian government decided to enlist the Aboriginal/ Torrens straight island people so the numbers would go up. Unfortunately they were not trained well they just got told to aim and fire. While the Aboriginal/ Torrens straight island people joined the war they started to get treated more like citizens and were aloud in the cities. After the war the army came home and there was a great celebration and thankyou speech with medals for the white solders, but the Aboriginals told to leave -
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War. After the landing the beach was known as ANZAC Cove because it is where the ANZAC's landed.
