History

1.2 History

During prehistory, all the Aboriginal tribes throughout Australia had

It developed a well-articulated social structure, were skilled gatherers and

hunters and had also developed sophisticated technologies in all fields. You

They were between 600 and 700 political units that shared languages ​​and knowledge.

Before the British rivendicated  Australia as their colony, the Aborigines

There were already contacts with some Asian civilizations.

The contacts with the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea date back thousands of years

does. In fact there are some Aboriginal stories about people who came from

sea.

The great Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), after

great journeys that brought him to Africa, to India, to Java and Sumatra, came

in 1432 near Darwin.

As proof of this contact, in 1879, they were found a statuette and some

china in the Gulf of Carpentaria and close to the Northen Territory capital.

For thousands of years, Aboriginal people had contacts with Macassans, dall '

Indonesia. These tours are well documented in the art aboriginal. The

Anthropologists have also found some similarities in the technology and linguists

They have found some words of Macassans in Aboriginal languages.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth century the Spanish and the Portuguese had made contact with the Aborigines.

First of all, the commander Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, having claimed

the island of Vanuatu, near Australia sailed but his death did consume the

interests of Spain towards this continent.

The deputy commander of the expedition of Quiros, Luis Vaez de Torres sailed

through the strait that bears his name.

He captured some islanders but never arrived in Spain.

From 1606, the Dutch sailed around Australia but not claimed the

continent because it did not meet their expectations of gold and spices.

The first contact between British and Aborigines dates back to 1688, when the pirate William

Dampier touched the shores of Australia but he wrote a negative report about

that land and the "naked hunters" that roamed.

1.3 Colonization

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Captain James Cook claimed Australia in the name of King George III 26

January 1788: this date marks the beginning of the white Australia's history.

The new settlers began to immediately destroy the land of the Aborigines

and, because of this, they started conflicts between the two groups. The first governor, Sir

Arthur Philip, he sought compromises with the Aborigines without spills

blood, but his attempts failed and the resistance grew.

After some aboriginal victories, the British prevailed on the population

indigenous. After centuries of battles, the Eora and Dharuk tribes were destroyed and

They survived only a few groups in the Sydney area.