Vseros 11. Lesson 5. Australia

The first people to arrive on Australia around 40000 years ago are known as ...

• the Aborigines

• the Indigenous people

• Melanasians

• Micronesians

Ancient Aborigines were

• nomadic hunter gatherers

• nomadic sailors

• sedentary farmers

• sedentary hunters

The first Aborigines arrived from

• New Zealand

• Southeast Asia

• Great Britain

• Holland

Aborigines invented this tool for hunting

• didgeridoo

• bow and arrows

• boomerang

• axe

Australia was claimed by James Cook as part of which empire?

• French

• Spanish

• Dutch

• British

Which event led to the increase in European colonists and terrible treatment of the Aborigines?

• World Was I

• Independence movements in South America

• the Gold Rush

• the end of the North Atlantic slave trade

Australia gained independence from Britain in which year?

• 1900

• 1901

• 1902

• 1903

During which period of Australia's history did Australians take Aborigine children from their families to assimlate them into Australian society?

• Stolen Generation

• Gold Rush

• World War I

• World War II

Which statement describes the early relationship between British colonists and Australian Aborigines?

• armed conflicts from the very beginning

• invitations to turn aboriginal lands into ranches

• friendly at first, then hostile as the British sought more land

• aboriginal diseases became an issue for colonists

What is the name of the building?

• the Parthenon

• Sydney Opera House

• Melbourne Conservatory

• Grand Hotel