They wore nothing except for animal pelts when it became cold.
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What was the original idea for what was to become of Australia?
They were to use it as another colony for British settlers.
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What year did the British land in Australia?
In the year 1788.
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What law was passed in 1976?
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act.
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What happened as the colonial settlements grew?
They slowly started to displace and kill off the Aborigines living there.
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How did they record their culture?
By painting on rock walls in shelters or by engraving on exposed rock surfaces.
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What was a benefit of colonizing Australia?
- The production of flax and timber
- Better trade routes and posts to China
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Why did they transport prisoners to Australia?
To clear and prepare the land for the colonial settlers.
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What started to happen during the early 19th century?
Aboriginal groups started to form and attack groups of Englishmen, and very soon, organized warfare occurred between the two groups.
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What was a large factor in the death of many Aborigines?
The diseases that were brought over by the Colonists, such as the measles, influenza, and small pox.
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What was the religion of the Aborigines?
Rainbow Serpent Mythology
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Why did the American Revolution help in the colonization of Australia?
Britain needed another place to send their prisoners after the American Revolution.
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Where did the First Fleet of British ships, carrying soldiers and convicts, land in Australia?
They landed in Botany Bay.
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Although the Aboriginal Land Rights Act passed much earlier, it wasn't until what year that the Aborigines finally got their lost land back from the British?
2006, roughly thirty years later.
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What document united the mainland, Tasmania, and the surrounding islands into Australia?
The Federal Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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What is an icon associated with their culture?
The didgeridoo or the boomerang.
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How did the British increase the flow of settlers into Australia?
They offered land and tools to any free British citizens who
would be willing to colonize Australia
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What two things about the British immediately annihilated the Aborigines and made it easy for the British to take their land?
The British brought foreign diseases, and their weaponry was far superior to that of the Aborigines.
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Roughly how many children were taken from 1910 - 1970?
Around one hundred thousand children.
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What groups were/are not allowed to participate in the democracy of Australia?
The natives and all non-Europeans.
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What did the Aborigines' recordings depict?
Plants, animals, dancing, and ceremonial events.
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Who was one of the first people to claim Australia as their own, and contributed to Britain's interest in the land?
Captain James Cook
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Slowly over time, the British converted the Aborigines to their culture and beliefs. What is this action called?
Assimilation.
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What was the "Stolen Generation"?
It was a time period (around 60 years) when white colonials would take Aboriginal children from their homes and give them to friends as "gifts" or slaves.
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What is a "dominion"?
A self-governing state concerning domestic affairs, but still a part of a larger empire.