The first Australians

The First Australians

1.     The British arrived in Australia in what year?  How does this year correspond to their colonies and activities elsewhere in the Empire?

They arrived 26 January 1788. Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 (1986).

2. What was the original landing site of their arrival called by the Aborigines and what was it renamed by the British? Warang and the British called Sydney Cove

3.  Who was on the British ship and what was their interest in Australia at the time? 13,000 people and more than the half were convicts and soldiers

4.  What was the Dreaming or Dreamtime in Aboriginal spirituality? The Dreamtime laid down the patterns of life for the Aboriginal people

They believe that every person that currently exists is going to eternally in the Dreaming. This eternal part existed before the life of the individual begins, and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends. Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists in the Dreaming and is only initiated into life by being born through a mother.

5. Who was the Aborgine who took on a significant role among the settlers and, later, in England itself? Bennelong, in 1788. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between the Eora and the British, both in Sydney and in the United Kingdom.

6.  How would you characterize his situation, or, what do you think he was thinking he was going to accomplish? He was the new discovery to Britain, because when he returned to Australia he had no power anymore and no friends.

7.  How does the British Australian experience of colonization differ and how does it overlap with their previous attempts in North America, which includes Canada Marien, and India? They have the same effect on the native population and, differs on that they didn’t take slaves to Australia, they used the natives. And Australia became a huge prison camp

8. Bonus Question: What do you do with a drunken sailor? I will make him walk the plank