The People
Facts about Australia
Colonization
Timeline
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The first people to inhabit Australia

What is The Aboriginal people

100

The national animal of Australia

What is a kangaroo

100

What is the name of the British colony in Australia?

What is British Settlement of Australia

100

The decade when the British colonizers first came to Australia

What is the 1780’s

200

The name of the first englishman to claim the land of Australia for Great Britain

Who is James Cook
200

The name which Australia is officially known as

What is the Commonwealth of Australia

200

A colony where prisoners were sent because prisons on the mainland were too crowded. 

Here they were forced to do labour without getting payed.

What is a Penal Colony

200

The decade when the British colonizers left Australia

What is the 1870’s

300

The nationality of the first explorers that found Australia

Who are The Dutch

300

Largest coral reef in the world that spans 2.300 kilometres  

What is The Great Barrier Reef

300

The unofficial currency after the british pound

What is Rum

300

The decade when Australia got their independence

What is the 1900’s

400

A tactic used by The Aboriginal People to fight the British colonist.

This tactic was later used in the 1960's Vietnam War by The Viet Cong.

What is Guerilla Tactics

400

This city is the capital of Australia

What is Canberra

400

The reason for the death of 2.500 British settlers and more than 20.000 aboriginals

What is The Australian Frontier Wars

400

The decade where the convict transportation to New South Wales ended

What is the 1840’s

500

This partnership made enormous profits by means of land grants, convict labour, and exporting native cedar back to England.

Who is Berry and Wollstonecraft

500

An Australian paste that is usually spread on sandwiches, toast, crumpets and cracker biscuits as well as a filling for pastries

What is Vegemite
500

The second biggest consequence of colonization in Australia, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Aboriginals

What is smallpox, disease which the British brought with them

500

The century when the first explorer, Willen Janzsoon, discovered Australia

What is the 16th century