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The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade began around the mid-fifteenth century when the Portuguese had interests in African slaves. The European empires lacked one major resource and that was a work force. In most cases the indigenous people were unreliable because they were dying from diseases brought over from Europe, and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases, But Africans were excellent workers they could resist Tropical dieses and work in hot condidios -
The Rise Of Capitalism
The birthplace of the Industrial revolution in the 18th century was in Britain. The number of capitalists that lived in Britain during the 18th century outnumbered those in other countries. Capitalism is an economic system that encourages competition between the sellers who all want to make a big profit. During the industrial Revolution a new range of entrepreneurs appeared and the increasing class of Capitalists became incredibly wealthy from creating new goods.. -
Denis Diderot (Encyclopédie)
In 1747 Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert (a mathematician who dropped out of the project) was offered to co-edit the French translation of Chamber's Cyclopedia. But they couldn’t understand the language and the meaning of the Cyclopaedia so they decide to compile their own encyclopaedia. The encyclopaedia was published in the 1750s but was greatly fixed by the editor Andre Le Breton due to its content. Between France and Europe there were more than 25000 copies sold. -
Discovery of Australia
On the 6th of may 1770 Captian Cook first discovered the eastern cost of Australia with his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Captian Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England. on the 22 of August he named the eastern coast of australia New South Wales. The discovery of Australia increased the land that the British empire owned.
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Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm came to Sydney in 1838 and was shocked to discover many newly arrived emigrant women sleeping in the streets or in bushland. Once a ship had landed, passengers were allowed to stay on board for only ten days. They then had to leave even if they had no job or accommodation. Caroline Chisholm established a home for female emigrants and tried to find work for them. By the time she returned to England in 1846, she had helped more than 10 000 people to find work. -
Squatters And Selectors
In the 1860s, the government passed a series of Selection Acts, they were designed to open up the land to other settlers. People could select from 40 to 640 acres, and the land was generally sold for 2 dollars an acre. People who obtained the land in this way were called selectors. By the late 1850s, the gold rush was ending and thousands of miners were looking for a way to support themselves. Population started to grow which meant more food was needed.Land was also needed to attract migrants. -
The ASHES (Cricket)
the ashes is a national game between of cricket between Australia and England. Australia would go to England to play and England would then come to Australia to play. it all started in 1882 when Englands finest team in cricket cam to Australia to verse the Austrlian team which was made up of convicts. the English lossed by 7 runs in that game and were so devostated that they lost to a bunch of convicts that they burnt their bats and stumps and said "on this day cricket is dead". -
Womens Suffrage
Women's suffrage in Australia began to be well-known during the late 19th century, beginning with South Australia in 1895 and Western Australia in 1899. In 1902, the newly established Australian Parliament passed the Commonwealth Franchise Act in 1902. This enabled women to vote and stand for election for the federal Parliament. This got rid of gender discrimination in relation to electoral rights for federal elections in Australia. By 1911, the remaining states and territories had all granted w -
The First World War (Begining)
World War I started with the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The assassination happened on June 28, 1914 while Ferdinand was visiting the city of Sarajevo in Austria-Hungary. His assassination was by a Serb nationalist who viewed as a great excuse to attack Austria-Hungary's troublesome neighbor, Serbia. instead of reacting quickly to the incident, Austria-Hungary made sure they had the backing of Germany, and serbia with Russia than became war -
Battle Of Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16, also known as the Battle of Gallipoli was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia. The campaign began with a failed naval attack by British and French ships on the Dardanelles Straits in February-March 1915 and continued with a major land invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25, involving British and French troops as well as divisions of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). -
The first world war (ending)
The final Allies push towards Germans border on the 17th of October, 1918. As the British, French and American armies advanced, the alliance between the Central Powers began to fall apart. Turkey signed an armistice at the end of October then Austria-Hungary followed on November 3. the sailors of the High Seas mutinied on October 29. Within a few days, the entire city was in their control At 5 AM on the morning of November an armistice was signed in a railroad car parked in a French forest. -
Australian Football League (AFL)
The Australian football league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a separate from previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its initial season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the state of Victoria, the sports name was changed to the Australian Football League in 1990, after the admission of teams from other states, namely Queensland and Western Australia, in 1987. Today it consists of 18 different teams that all participate in the sport.
