Transcript Australia Culture and History

• What European country first colonized
Australia?
• Why?
Origin of the Aborigines
• Aborigines-native
people of Australia
• Came from Southeast
Asia
• Developed ways to
survive the harsh
Australian
environment
• Religion divided people into
two “Moieties.”
• The groups were based on
the connection with totems
• Totems represented
different plants, animals, or
other things in nature
• A person was born to their
moiety and stay their entire
life
• Had to marry a person from
opposite moiety
Before Europeans
• Aborigines lived where
present day
Australians live.
• Lived in tribes or
“language group” of
about 500 people
• Had bands of 10-20
called “hordes” that
gathered food and
hunted
• Compare the Aborigine society with our
society. How is it the same? How is it
different?
Aborigines
Same
Our Society
• Tell me one thing about aborigine way of life
that you found most interesting? WHY? 
(two sentences)
• You need to get out the Mark Your Progress
sheet.
Europeans Arrive
• From 1770 to 1771
English Captain James
Cook explored Australia
and claimed the east
coast for Great Britain
• They brought with them
GUNS! GERMS! And
STEEL!
• Pushed many aborigines
into rough land and
away from water sources
• Many Aborigines died
Shoulder Buddy
Discussion Topic:
Why you think the British tried to get rid of the
Aborigines?
Australia is full of Jail birds!
• Who colonized Australia?
– The British
– BUT! British Prisoners!
• The British used Australia
as a Penal colony
• When the prisoners
served their sentence
out, what do you think
they did?
– They stayed!
Language of Australia
• Many aborigine
languages before
Euros
• English colonized
with prisoners then
settlers
• There were other
settlers, but English
the most plentiful
Religion in Australia
• Most convicts were
Christians
• When other settlers
came, they brought
churches
• Most Australians are
Christians, but other
religions do exist
(Jews, Hindu, Muslim,
Buddhist)
Fill in the Blanks
• Before the British arrived in ____________
(where) the Aborigines
____________(summarize how the Aborigines
lived). The British needed more land and
made Australia a ______________. The
British then treated the Aborigines like
____________.