Aboriginals of
Australia
Australia
The amount of years ago that people started migrating to Australia.
What is 50,000 years ago.
The first humans to live in New Zealand.
What are the “Maori”.
Captain James Cook did this amount of voyages.
What is 3 voyages.
Colonists brought these animals with them.
What are sheep, cows, dogs, rabbits, and poisonous cane toads.
Captain Cook explored New Zealand as British colonists, American, and French traders & whalers went to North Island in this time period.
What was the 1770s.
Nomads did not practice this.
What is farming.
The commonly used transportation from A.D.800-1300.
What are canoes.
The convicts sent to Australia in 80 years
What is 160,000.
These animals grew to a population of 1 billion & ate grass & wildflowers: entire areas left bare.
What are rabbits.
In this year the Treaty of Waitangi gave legal ownership & control of New Zealand to Great Britain.
What was 1840.
The domestic dog brought to Australia from Asia 4,000 years ago.
What are dingoes.
The huge flightless bird hunted to extinction.
What are Moa
In the late 1700s the center of trade & industry that was established.
What is Sydney.
The name of animals not native to an area but are brought from other places.
What are introduced species.
These people took Maori land in 1872.
What was the Europeans.
The amount of languages in Australia.
What are 400 different languages.
2 popular crops.
What are taro and yams.
The time period when most of Australia explored by Europeans.
What are the 1890s.
Thousands of Aboriginal families & tribes forced to leave their lands because of these settlers.
What are the British settlers.
The reason native scrubland & forests were cleared to make pastures for livestock.
What was sheep ranching.
The name of the aboriginal retelling of creation.
What is ‘the Dreaming” or “the Dreamtime”.
Name of the Maori customs and traditions.
What is Tikanga.
Gold was first found in Bathurst, New South Wales in this year.
What was 1851.
The place survivors who weren’t killed by European diseases & violence had to live.
What are the rugged lands the Europeans didn’t want.
Introduced species (rabbits, goats, pigs, deer, rodents,
feral cats) did this.
What was “killed native animals & threatened species”.