Focus: How did European exploration and colonization of the Americas compare to that in Oceania? START UP: “Australia’s Early Settlers: Aborigines and Prisoners” 1.Why did the British make Australia a penal colony? 2.Who were the prisoners in these early penal colonies? deo.aspx?xtid=39999

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Voyages of James Cook

There MUST be a Southern Hemisphere Continent to create balance with the Northern Hemisphere….

Terra Australis Incognita

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Summary Use your notes and H.W. to compare the major similarities and differences between European colonization in the Americas and Oceania.

Compare the nature of the relationships between the indigenous people of Latin America and Australia and the Europeans.

The European Age of Exploration which began in the late 1400’s, was motivated by material gain and religious zeal. As they encountered various new groups of people throughout the globe, they severely altered the nature of the societies they came into contact with. In Latin America, natives were conscripted into forced labor, converted to Christianity due to the Catholic Reformation and decimated by disease. Similarly, the native people of Australia fell victim to European diseases because, like native Americans, they had no natural immunity. However, unlike Native Americans, they did not comingle with Australia’s native Aborigines, nor did they seek to convert them to Christianity to the extent this occurred in Latin America.