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Enlightenment
It originated between 1650 1700. It took that many years to get everyone understanding and liking the idea of enlightenment. The main aim of Enlightenment was to build a better world through thinking and reasoning. The effects of enlightenment were that people were treated in the same way. -
Imperialism
Imperialism is when a bigger thing (group of people or country) takes over a small thing. For example: when England took over Australia and New Zeeland in 1788. England thought that it was a good thing and that they were helping us. When imperialism occurs the smaller group has to give up their beliefs, ideas and values. The 17th century was when imperialism really begun. It was when a lot of countries tried and often succeeded to overrule other countries. It was done by invasion and colonis -
Imperialism
The 17th century is when people think is when the age of empires begun but really that was just in Europe. Empires were around in Asia particularly China for many centuries before. The Mongol Empire was one of the best ever empires and it all started with Genghis Khan. In 1206 he united with Mongol tribes and went on to conquer a lot of Asia. The Mongol Empire went over around %16 of the entire world and controlled around 100 million people. -
Industrial Revalution
In England around 1760 is when the industrial revolution began and it quickly spread around the world. It was the biggest thing since agriculture societies. Textile and iron industries became very big in industrialisation. Steam power and later electricity helped agriculture, manufacturing, transport and different communication systems what they are today. In 1785 the steam engine was improved by using more heat and less fuel. Coal was used to power the steam engines and to make iron. Iron wa -
Free Settlers
Free Settlers first came to Australia in 1788 and stopped coming 1850. What it was was rich English men traveling to Australia by boat and taking the Aboriginals land. the short term effects were that the Aboriginals were really mad and lots of people died. the long term effects were that we all live here now as Australians. -
Convicts
The first fleet of convicts arrived in 1788 and continued to come until around 1850. Over this period of time 162,000 convicts arrived in Australia. Convicts would get jobs such as carpenters, blacksmiths, baker’s farmers and clerks. If there were no jobs like that available the government would give them to free settlers to work as servants. They were usually treated very badly there.
For a very long time convicts had it very bad but the governor of NSW Lachlan Macquarie ex-convicts should be -
Indigenous People
When the Europeans invaded Australia in 1778, the Aboriginals had to deal with a lot of new and strange changes like all new and different diseases which ended up killing a lot of them. Around 750,000 Aboriginal people were thought to be living in Australia in 1788. The free settlers thought that it was no one’s land and they could just have it. it was James Cook who first came up with this when he was sailing the coast in 1770. -
Sydney Cove
Lots of people started going to Sydney Cove so they had to get more farm land. In June 1789 Hawkesbury River was found which made a big difference because it had new and very good pastoral land. People started to live near and alongside the river. In 1790 Governor Phillip gave a land grant at Rose Hill to an old convict, James Ruse. The pastures needed a lot of farming work and grazing, this was could not happen alongside the coast. -
The Swan River Colony
The Swan River was first explored in 1827 by Captain James Stirling. The Swan River colony was in first established in Western Australia in the year of 1829 in June. Two years later in June Stirling returned. He has returned as a governor of the new settlement in Parmelia and by the end of the year five hundred colonists had arrived. The effects were the course exploring the settlement of the region in 1827 to the 1890s and beyond the context of the British colonial expansion. -
Industrial Revolution
The Eiffel Tower built in 1887 and the Crystal Palace built in 1850 were both built show the new technology of engineering. Factories begun to be built along the countryside, villages and towns were turned into large cities where people had to go to find a job. Forests were chopped down because timber was needed to fuel different industries. Ports had to become bigger because of the increase of international trade. There was a lot of air and water pollution which caused some trouble in some reg -
Convicts
A lot of convicts came to Australia in 1851-1871 for a major gold rush. Convicts came to Australia at this time to get all the gold for the free settlers.at first it was good becasue lots of convicts were out of England and working for the free settlers. They had to come and work for them for years. Not all convicts came to dig out gold some were slaves at houses that would cook, clean and do other things. -
Missionary's in Australia
On July 1st 1871, Reverend Samuel MacFarlane from London Missionary Society landed on Darney Island, Queensland. Long term effects of the Missionaries are that the Torres Strait Islanders, to this day, have lost sacred sites and land to the settlers and the missionary’s attempts at what seemed as a “purification” of their beliefs. The short term effects of missions and missionaries interfering with the Torres Strait Islanders beliefs were that many of their shrines were destroyed as a part of ed -
Constitution
The Constitution began on the 1st of January; 1901.The Constitution was a law where the indigenous were not entitled to specific things. The Indigenous people were not allowed to vote, earn pensions and maternity leave was not given. The short term effects of this event were that aboriginals were not given rights because their race and the constitution eventually ended in a massacre. The long term effects were that eventually the indigenous were given all the rights that they once were not. -
Commonwealth Franchise
The commonwealth Franchise ACT 1902 was an Act of the Parliament of Australia which defined who was allowed to vote. The Act granted Australian women the right to vote at a national level, and to stand for election to the Parliament. South Australia was the first Australian colony to allow women to vote. The short term effects of this were people were not allowed to do many things. The long term effects were that now the Aboriginals now have the right to do everything. -
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign was the first major fighting that Australian soldiers were involved in during world war one and the first time Australian and New Zeeland soldiers fought united under ANZAC name. the aim of the battle was to bring down Germany by gaining control of its allies in this case Turkey.
On the 25th of April 1914nthe soldiers landed at a beach that was later named ANZAC Cove and bean the battle, where thousands of Australian and New Zeeland soldiers’ lives were lost. Battles at G -
Women at war
When World War One first begun women had to do the jobs of the men that went to war. Including working in factories. They also worked in jobs to assist the war such as nurses, munitions factories and even as spies.
Many of the jobs the women did during the war were dangerous such as working in munition factories where there were lots of dangerous chemicals. However the new rates for women also gave them greater responsibilities and independence which led to evidentially to women getting to vote -
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian empire and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. However Franz Ferdinand was unpopular with Bosnians due to Bosnia being taken over by Austro-Hungarian in 1908. His assassination whilst on a visit to Sarajevo by a Bosnian terrorist led to Austro-Hungarian declaration of war against Serbia. This caused the central powers (including Germany and Austro-Hungarian) and the allies of World War One (including Serbia and its allies) to declare war o