2006-09-27 15:46:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Humans' relationship with the European or ‘true’ rabbit was first recorded by the Phoenicians over 1,000 years BC, when they termed the Iberian Peninsula i-shfaním (literally, "the land of the hyraxes"). This phrase is pronounced absolutely identically in modern Hebrew, i (אי) meaning "island" and shafan (שפן) meaning "hyrax", shfaním (שפנים) being the plural form. Phoenicians called the local rabbits "hyraxes" because hyraxes resemble rabbits in some way, and probably were more common than rabbits at that time in their native Levant. Hyraxes, like rabbits, are not rodents. The Romans converted the phrase i-shfaním to its Latin form, Hispania, and hence the modern word "Spain".
2006-09-27 16:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by aussie_latino 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-19 07:23:38 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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The original Australians were Aborigines, who are very dark skinned. Then England annexed Australia and started using it as a land to send convicts which they didn't want to deal with any longer, when it turned out that Australia could be more useful than unwanted Europeans started migrating there to seek wealth, and then sometime later as with most distant unsettled and disputed lands the people broke way and formed their own country. --------------------------- Aborigines is a term applied by English in the 1700's they are also known by the local Indigenous languages but so far as I know they didn't have tribal names or anything like that before the English came along, one would assume they did though.
2016-04-05 00:52:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As has been said....The indigenous people of Australia were the Aborigines, and yes that was a name put on them by the English invaders... And yes the "whites" in Australia tried to get rid of the Aborigines just like they did with the Native Americans here... And just like here they failed...there is a name for what the English tried, it's called genocide. As with most Native American Tribes the name the Aborigines called themselves roughly translates to "the people"...
2016-03-17 05:04:09 · answer #4 · answered by Bonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Australia
2006-09-27 15:54:52 · answer #5 · answered by EiaMaria 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
rabbits r wild, they come from all over.
2006-09-27 15:50:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋