Study Guide for Test Australia’s History

1. From where did the Aborigines enter the Australian continent thousands of years ago? Southeast Asia 2. Which weapon did the Aborigines invent? Boomerang 3. Which social group of the Aborigines was made of 10 to 20 people? Hordes 4. Which describes the Aborigines? nomads

5. The prisoners used to colonize Australia in the late 1700s were primarily from which country? Great Britain 6. Which war made the government of Great Britain look to Australia as a penal colony? American War for Independence

7. What part of the first prisoners sent to Australia were women? 20% 8. What was the original name Captain James Cook gave to the colony of Australia? New South Wales

9. What was the greatest threat to the Aborigines after the Europeans began settling Australia? Diseases 10. What event in the mid-19 th century (1850s) led to the killing of hundreds of Aborigines? Gold rush

11. Which was an effect of British settlement of Australia? Thousands of Aborigines died of small pox and other diseases