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| How Europeans Settled In Australia by ElectorAlexande(op): 2:36am On Apr 20, 2019 |
For Aborigines, they got there through migration over land bridges several thousands of years past. At least that’s the general hypothesis. So they found it by walking till there wasn’t ground any longer, the land bridges disappeared, then they would settle there and start inhabiting, and they did this for 40,000 years prior to white man. For Europeans, basically by accident. It was generally believed that long before land was actually sighted, that there might be some sort of continental mass well south of Asia. There was no specific mission set aside, as had been the case with North America. The first European to sight the Australian continent was Netherlander Willem Janszoon in 1606, along the coast of Cape York Peninsula. The Dutch mapped the northern outline, referring to the continent as “New Holland,” but did not settle there. Dirk Hartog, another Dutchman, made landfall in 1616 in Western Australia (on an island now named after him) but found little of value, and continued on to Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia. Continue reading @https://www.historicalville.com/2019/04/how-europeans-settled-in-australia.html?m=1
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| Re: How Europeans Settled In Australia by shugabasbn: 3:31am On Apr 20, 2019 |
And the European and Americans came to kill the aborigines n took away their properties |
| Re: How Europeans Settled In Australia by EdiAbali: 3:52am On Apr 20, 2019 |
shugabasbn:The same way they will kill us some day and take over our land and everything if we don't wake up |
| Re: How Europeans Settled In Australia by mysticwarrior(m): 2:27pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
EdiAbali:and can I ask how and why would they kill us someday? |
| Re: How Europeans Settled In Australia by EdiAbali: 3:44pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
mysticwarrior:Like they did to New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, some South African countries. Because we're not serious as humans, we're backward in many things |
| Re: How Europeans Settled In Australia by mysticwarrior(m): 4:11pm On Apr 20, 2019*. Modified: 4:40pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
EdiAbali:the indigenous people of those countries you mentioned were too WEAK to resist total subjugation, that is why there were slaughtered like chickens and forced to isolated places. The Indians of America were forced to Arizona, the black south Africans were forced to Soweto, same also happen in Australia. |
| Re: How Europeans Settled In Australia by panafrican(m): 5:26pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
mysticwarrior:" La loi du plus fort est toujours la meilleure" Meaning The Law written by the strongest is always the best or The reason of those best able to have their way is always the best Put other way : innocence is not a shield ( French Poetry). Reading: The Wolf and the Lamb, By Jean de La Fontaine |
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