Sources
What is a Primary Source?
This type of source is a firsthand account, artifact, or diary created at the time of the event.
What is the Dreamtime?
This term refers to the spiritual beliefs and cultural stories of Aboriginal Australians, which were disrupted by colonisation.
This planet is known as the Red Planet
Mars
What is gold?
This valuable yellow metal attracted thousands of people to Australia in the 1800s.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
In 1969, he became the first person to walk on the moon
A textbook, biography, or journal article that analyses or interprets primary materials. This is a...?
Secondary Source
What is pastoral expansion (or pastoralism)?
This term describes the expansion of settlers raising livestock, especially sheep, on large areas of land beyond the Blue Mountains.
This country has the tallest mountain in the world within it.
Nepal
What are diggers?
This term describes the miners who searched for gold on the goldfields.
What are Hieroglyphics?
This Egyptian writing system, which uses symbols and pictures, was deciphered using the Rosetta Stone.
What is plagiarism?
Presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent.
What is protectionism?
This government policy controlled the lives of Aboriginal peoples by restricting movement, culture, and freedoms.
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles
Brazil
What was the hope of finding gold?
To escape poverty with the promise of instant wealth
What triggered the start of World War I?
The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered this global event.
What does each part of TOMACPRU stand for?
Type, Origin, Motive, Audience, Content, Perspective, Reliability, Useability
What is resistance and adaptation (or cultural resistance)?
This concept explains how Aboriginal people resisted colonisation not only through fighting, but also by maintaining culture, staying on Country, and adapting to colonial systems.
What is the name of the high-end Japanese beef known for its extreme marbling and tenderness?
Wagyu
What is multiculturalism?
This broader social effect of the gold rush describes the arrival and mixing of people from many different countries in Australia.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This 14th-century pandemic, commonly known as the Black Death, is believed to have killed roughly one-third of Europe's population.
What is information literacy?
The ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use information
What is the squattocracy?
This term describes wealthy landholders who occupied large areas of Crown land without legal ownership but gained power through sheep and wool production.
This Pixar film was the first entirely computer-animated film.
Toy Story
What is dispossession and marginalisation (or conflict and exclusion from the goldfields)?
This was one significant way the gold rush impacted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples beyond land loss, often involving exclusion from mining opportunities and conflict with settlers.
How did Nobles/Lords pay their vassals in the Middle Ages? (Note: Vassal is someone who works under another)