Brief History of Oceania

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Brief History of Oceania

• LECTURE 1
• Australia New Zealand
• Early Times Colonial Period

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Migration to Australia

• First people in Australia came from Southeast
  Asia
• Crossed land bridges (when possible)
• Also used boats/canoes

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Aborigines

• First people to live in Australia
• 50,000 years before Europeans
• Lived in tribes, in small villages
• Food came mostly from the sea (fish)
• Also grew yams, fruits, taro
• Nomadic people

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Colonial Period

• First European explorers came around 1500 A.D.
• 1800s - In search of whale oil, more exploration
  occurred when whalers followed animals to Oceania
• Capt. James Cook (right) explorer of Australia
  New Zealand (1770s)

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European Settlement of Australia

• 1788
• Great Britain turns Australia into prison colony
• 1851
• Gold discovered, bringing many European settlers
• Decline of Indigenous people (Aborigine)
• Fighting for control of land
• Could not combat European diseases

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Brief History of Oceania

• LECTURE 2
• Australia New Zealand
• New Zealand Modern Auzzieland

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New Zealand in Brief

• First settled between 950-1130 A.D.
• First explored by Europeans in 1630 (Abel Tasman)
• Capt. James Cook explored NZ in 1769

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New Zealand Today

• Government
• Member of the British Commonwealth, but
  completely independent (like Canada)
• Voting Every person 18 can vote
• Elections every 3 years

"Summer" Months October - April

• Economy
• Mostly agriculture and tourism
• However, there are 13 times more sheep than
  people in New Zealand

"Winter" Months May-September
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5 Things You didnt Know about Aussieland

• Australia is REALLY BIG
• 6th largest country (physically) in the world
  (slightly smaller than continental USA)
• Australia is REALLY EMPTY
• Only 20 million residents (USA has 300 million)
• Australia has really dangerous animals (yes and
  no!)
• More people have died from lightning strikes than
  shark attacks
• More people died from bee stings (20) than died
  from shark attacks, crocodile attacks and spider
  bites combined.

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5 Things (contd)

• 4. Australians are hard workers
• In 2004, Australian's ranked third in a list of
  average hours worked each year amongst industrial
  countries behind New Zealand (1) and the USA (2)
  and ahead of Japan (5), Britain (8) and Germany
  (12).

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5. Rugby Players are tougher than Soccer
(football) Players