I like how in 1863, there's something called Southern Australia, which runs all the way from the South to the North.
Colonization of Australia
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I like how in 1863, there's something called Southern Australia, which runs all the way from the South to the North.
Well played.
Between 300,000 - 1,000,000
Desert areas would have been less sparsely populated.
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Yes, but the vast majority of Aborigines - like the majority of Australians as a whole - are either urban or otherwise settled (often in quite dysfunctional communities sadly)
Between 300,000 - 1,000,000
Desert areas would have been less sparsely populated.
You can do the practice test here
Mostly pop-history questions.
Yes, but the vast majority of Aborigines - like the majority of Australians as a whole - are either urban or otherwise settled (often in quite dysfunctional communities sadly)
Actually, the majority of Indigenous Australians live in the major cities. And there's few to no Indigenous Australians who live a nomadic existence now.
I also remember when the citizenship was actually hard, not because the questions were hard but because the answers were so samey and vague.
I also remember when the citizenship was actually hard, not because the questions were hard but because the answers were so samey and vague.
Does anybody know if any sophisticated civilizations (like Indonesians or Chinese) ever settled Australia at some point? Being such a large continent in such close proximity to South Asia, it should have been inevitable. I'm having troubles believing all that ever lived there before the Europeans were people that arrived millennia prior to them...
No. Although, Makassan trepang (sea cucumber) fisherman did spend time in parts of Northern Australia. The dried trepang was then shipped to China for consumption. The local museum in Darwin holds a number of swivel guns and small cannon of Makassan origin and there's been finds across the border in Western Australia. The Yolgnu language has acquired a number of Makassan loanwords and there's a lot of rock art that depicts their prau (ships). But the fisherman didn't settle. At most, they spent a season or two fishing before returning home. The other point to note is that the Makassans more than likely began making the journey after a spate of Dutchmen had already bumped into the continent. So far as I know, the Makassans discovery was independent of the Dutch discovery even if it did occur after the fact.
