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Title: The Australian Aborigines


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The Australian Aborigines
  • 3/18/2009

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Sahulcompare on wall map to what it looks like
now
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Where did the Aborigines come from?
  • They came to Australia from Southeast Asia
    thousands of years ago
  • Australia used to be connected from Asia
  • Then, they broke apart
  • So, Aborigines did not have contact with the rest
    of the world for thousands of years

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How and where did the Aborigines live?
  • On the coast of Australia
  • Inside part of the country is a big desert
  • More plants and animals on the coast
  • Lived in many small groups
  • No specific leader in each group
  • All members of a group were equal
  • Lived as hunter-gatherers
  • Did not plant crops
  • Instead, hunted animals and ate the plants that
    were there naturally

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Aborigines
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Aboriginal religion
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How and where did the Aborigines live?
  • Traded with other groups
  • Able to get different types of goods
  • Kept groups connected
  • Religion
  • Based on the Dreaming the beginning of life on
    earth
  • Spirits made the earth
  • Some spirits stayed on earth in land and animals
  • Earth is connected to spiritual world

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Culture of the United Kingdom
  • Had contact with people around the world
  • Traded a lot, but for profit
  • Hierarchal society some people had power over
    others
  • Racist they believed that white people were
    better at that time
  • Christian religion

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Double Bubble
  • Draw double bubble quietly (2 minutes)
  • Work with a partner to compare the culture of the
    Aborigines and the United Kingdom
  • Use ideas from notes
  • Also think of other things about the U.K.
  • Be creative
  • Share ideasfill in yours with ideas from others

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Think-pair-share
  • Think What do you think will happen to the
    Aborigines when colonized by the United Kingdom?
  • Write down on your notes (2 minutes)
  • Pair tell one partner what you wrote (one minute
    each)
  • Share I will call on people to tell what their
    partner wrote, so make sure you can explain what
    your partner said

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Why did the United Kingdom colonize Australia?
  • Early European explorers did not try to settle
    Australia
  • 1770 James Cook claims Australia for Great
    Britain (the United Kingdom)
  • Even though Aborigines lived there
  • How would you like someone claiming that your
    home for thousands of years belonged to them?

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Why did the United Kingdom colonize Australia?
  • United Kingdom wanted a place for prisoners far
    away from home
  • Sent 150,000 prisoners to Australia between 1788
    and 1852
  • Stopped sending prisoners there in 1852

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How did European colonization affect the
Aborigines?
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