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Australia
100
A territory governed by the emperor or sovereign of another nation.
What is an empire?
100
At its hight, Britain ruled this percentage of the world's population.
What is 20%?
100
This Palestinian-American wrote about the relationship between the West and the East.
Who is Edward Said and "Orientalism"
100
"In spite of himself, the native must be helped."
What is A.O. Neville in "Rabbit Proof Fence"?
100
These spirit beings shaped the earth and created all life forms.
What are the Dreamtime Ancestors
200
A biased way of categorizing non-white peoples and places in dichotomies.
What is Orientalism?
200
This development caused unemployment in Britain and made many migrate to the colonies.
What is the population boom?
200
In this text, the protagonist is stranded on an island and befriends a native who becomes his servant and his student.
What is "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
200
"My back from flogging was lacerated / And oft-times painted with crimson gore"
What is Frank MacNamara in "Moreton Bay"
200
When the first European colony was established in Australia.
What is 1788?
300
The three motives for imperialism.
What are economic, exploratory, and ethnocentric motives?
300
The motto of the British empire.
What is "the sun never sets on the British empire"?
300
In this text, the speaker argues that it is the white man's duty to civilize the world.
What is "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling?
300
"For the pain, suffering, and hurt of the Stolen Generations, their descendants and their families, we say sorry."
What is Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in "the Sorry Speech".
300
The first type of British colony in Australia.
What is a penal colony?
400
A policy of expanding a nation's territory.
What is imperialism?
400
Mini-versions of Britain built by settlers.
What are "overseas satellites"?
400
In this text, gigant spirit beings walk the earth and cause natural disasters.
What is "Once Gigants Walked the Earth" by Rosaleen Love?
400
"The native Australians may be happy in their condition, but they are without doubt among the lowest of mankind"
What is Captain Cook in his 1770 journal
400
The percentage of Aborigines in the Australian population today.
What is 2%
500
The Latin term for no-man's-land
What is Terra Nullius
500
Many European nations were empires of commerce and the sea. But Britain was an empire of...
What is "conquest and settlement"?
500
In this short text from 1891, the writer argues against imperialism.
Who is Mark Twain and "On Imperialism"?
500
"We have no business in any country that is not ours."
What is Mark Twain in "On Imperialism"?
500
The year of Australian Independence from Britain.
What is 1901