WS 10.3

Oceania and Australia

1600–1900
10

CHAPTER

1.

Read pages 173-175

2.

Put the items in blue in your notes.

3.

Answer the questions from this powerpoint.

4. Study your notes for the test - Wednesday, January

25.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.

What are the islands of Oceania, and who
discovered and colonized them?

2.

How did European contact impact the native
peoples?

3.

How did English settlements take root in Australia?

BIG IDEAS

III. EUROPEAN EXPLORATION

INTHE 1700S

1.

What discoveries resulted from French exploration in the
Pacific?

2.

What impact did the English exploration have on the
search for a southern continent?

Guiding Questions

FRENCH EXPLORATION
▪ Louis Antoine de

Bougainville
▪ French explorer
▪ claimed several islands for

France

▪ Tahiti

Tahiti

ENGLISH EXPLORATION
▪ James Cook

▪ English captain
▪ the most famous explorer

of the Pacific

▪ scurvy—disease that many

sailors contracted because
they lacked vitamin C in their
diet

James Cook

ENGLISH EXPLORATION
▪ Cook’s men ate

sauerkraut to meet their
vitamin C needs, and few
ever came down with scurvy.

▪ Cook discovered many

islands in the Pacific, notably
the Hawaiian Islands.

James Cook

Multiple Choice

If you needed Vitamin C would you rather,

• eat sauerkraut

• eat oranges

• eat limes

• eat lemond

ENGLISH EXPLORATION
▪ Angry Hawaiians attacked

Cook and his men.

▪ Cook’s men escaped, but he

did not.

James Cook

Death of Captain James Cook

Open Ended

1. Why did Bougainville establish a colony on the Falkland Islands?

Open Ended

2. What idea did Bougainville develop that became a custom for other explorers?

Open Ended

3. Who was the most famous explorer of the Pacific?

Open Ended

4. What was Captain Cook’s mission?

Open Ended

5. On what chain of islands did Captain Cook die?

Open Ended

Why were tropical islands like Tahiti described as proof that man was born unspoiled?

Open Ended

Why were these claims inaccurate and unbiblical?

❖ Why were tropical islands like Tahiti described as proof that

man was born unspoiled? Why were these claims inaccurate
and unbiblical?
These islands appeared to be an unspoiled tropical paradise.
The explorers assumed the islanders were good because
they lived simple lives in apparent harmony with nature.
However, the islanders often practiced cannibalism,
performed human sacrifices, and engaged in tribal warfare.
The myth of “unspoiled natives” contradicts the reality of
man’s innate sinfulness.

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