Ancient Australia Timeline - Year 7 Humanities

CE means...

• Common Era - the era we are living in now

• Common Era - the time before Year 0

• Before the Present (also called BP)

Based on the timeline, how long do historians believe people have inhabited Australia?

• around 30,000 years

• more than 60,000 years

• around 20,000 years

• around 28,000 years

What happened around 26,000 years ago?

• Humans arrived in Australia.

• Rock art was made in Narwala Gabarnmung.

• Tasmania was cut off from the mainland.

Axe heads, tools and other (a)   found near Warrnambool suggest an Indigenous presence there from circa 28,000 years ago.

Tools made of bone suggest Aboriginal people were working with ______ _____ from circa 400CE.

(a)  

What impact did the last Ice Age have on where people lived in Australia?

• It cut Tasmania off from the mainland.

• It made all of Australia too cold to inhabit.

• It made parts of Australia too cold to inhabit.

• Port Phillip Bay flooded.

The first Europeans to have contact with Aboriginal Australians were...

• Dutch and English

• English

• Dutch and Spanish

• French and Dutch

When did ice caps melt and sea levels rise?

• c.18,000

• c6,000

• c.14,000

• c.11,000

In c.18,000, the c stands for...

• civilisation

• chronology

• capital

• circa

The word 'Nation' refers to...

• The Wurundjeri people

• A group of Aboriginal peoples from different language ands cultural groups.

• A group of Aboriginal peoples. They may be from the same or different language groups.