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First Europeans to arrive at Adventure Bay
it is important to look at different perspectives so that you get the whole story/picture. For instance with the Black war the Europeans would have had very different stories compared to the original inhabitants. The Europeans talked about funny people with strange traditions where the original inhabitants talked about members stolen, slavery and murder. Without both perspectives both historians would never have been able to see the whole story. -
Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
The rise of machines helped create larger cities with increased populations within the cities themselves. More productions of food brought people into the city. The industrial revolution lead to more births and earlier marriages. This was because when a factory can produce a hundred or a thousand times more of a product than can be made by hand, the prices would fall. the effect of this was a peak in the population numbers around the world. -
End of the Napoleonic War
Napoleonic wars of 1793–1815, the British had to weather invasion threats and periods of economic isolation, but in the end they gained total victory. The British built railroads, telegraphs, canals and had improved farming there. Without Britain the world wouldn’t have expended so quickly and we wouldn’t have had the industrial revolution. The Napoleonic war enabled the British to colonise the rest of the world. -
Darwinism
The main idea was that species developed skills from previous generations. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half. Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society. This links into modern day where we have those in power like the government and those who have less (The average citizen). -
Shootout at Stringybark Creek/Ned Kelly's legacy
Ned Kelly was seen as the hero who stole for the poor and robbed banks giving the money to those in need. Many saw the bank robberies as an act of defiance to the law. Ned Kelly's legacy is contestable because there is no true account of what really happened. Example: Kennedy doesn't think ned Kelly should be celebrated for all the bad things he did. He gets frustrated that Ned Kelly killed three policemen even for self defence. This is contestable as both sides are seen as truthful. -
Boxer rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China. People should feel empathy for the Chinese. The Europeans invaded China ,in which foreign nations made their own laws and treated Chinese as second-class citizens. Europeans started imperialism in China by selling opium to the Chinese. this makes people feel empathetic towards the Chinese as they had their country stolen from them and were ruled over by foreigners. -
Battle of Beersheba
Affordances of primary sources; we see an overview of what happened in their perspective. 'We put on pace...next were jumping the trenches with the Turks underneath when over the trenches we went straight for the town." Limitations of this however is we only receive one side of the event, therefore, don't have the evidence to make an accurate discovery about the past. Evidence is what can be learnt from a historical source to help construct a historical report, prove or disprove a conclusion.
