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The Enlightenment
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Free Settlers
It was a struggle for the settlers to survive in the first years of the British colony in Australia. They had come from a developed country with buildings, roads, shops and hospitals and arrived in a country that was entirely unfamiliar to them. Not only did they have to contend with strange plants and animals but the soil was also very poor and the climate much warmer and drier. The early settlers were also wary of the Indigenous peoples. The colony almost failed in the early years, as the harv -
Convicts
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government. One of the primary reasons for the British settlement of Australia was the establishment of a penal colony to alleviate pressure on their over populated correctional facilities. Over the 80 years more than 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia -
indigenous aboriginal
European settlement had a severe and devastating impact on Indigenous people. Their dispossession of the land, exposure to new diseases and involvement in violent conflict, resulted in the death of a vast number of the Aboriginal peoples. The small percentage of Aboriginal people who did not die during these early decades of the colony, were not unaffected. The impact of the white settlers changed their lives, and the lives of future generations, forever. -
The Enlightnement
The first traces of enlightenment are found in the early French philosophers around 1670. They comment the results of first scientific studies that tend to prove that the church is not all, and that there is much more to life than what it's representatives tend to make believe -
The Birth of Australia
The name "Australia" was popularised by the 1814 work A Voyage to Terra Australis by the navigator Matthew Flinders, the first recorded person to circumnavigate Australia. Despite its title, which reflected the view of the British Admiralty, Flinders used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Governor Lachlan Macquarie of New South Wales subsequently used the word in his dispatches to England. -
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa ,Italy. He was the oldest of five children in his family. His father was a wool weaver. He helped his father with the weaving, but he always wanted to sail the seas. He didn't get to go to school very much, but he learned to read and write Spanish during his travels. He also taught himself Latin because all the geography books were written in Latin. Some people thought he was trying to prove the world was round, but this is not true. Most people already -
Christopher Columbus
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How did the gold rush effect the aborigines
the rush of diggers to the goldfields increased the problems of displacement of the Aborigines from their own land. The effects of gold mining on the land were devastating and long-lasting. Gold mining ripped up the land, polluted the rivers and creeks, and left nothing for the aboriginal people who had lived there for centuries. Aborigines were again dispossessed of their land as they had been time and time again since the arrival of the Europeans -
The Gold Rush
The Australian Gold Rush was a period of significant migration of workers, both more locally and from overseas, to areas which had discoveries of gold deposits. There were a number of gold finds in Australia prior to 1851, but it is only the gold found from 1851 onwards which created gold rushes. -
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Voluntary Migration
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Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On the 28th of June 1914, Archduck Franz Ferdinand and his wife were visiting sarajevo to inspect the some of the army. As the motorcade passed through the streets a member of the serbian group shot and killed Archduck Franz Ferdinand. -
Great Britiain declares war on Germany
On August 4th 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. It was a decision that started the whole World War (One that is). Britain, led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had given Germany a message to get out of Belgium by midnight of August 3rd. In fear of being surrounded by the might of Russia and France, Germany had put into being the Schlieffen Plan in response to the events that had occurred in Sarajevo in June 1914
