I am reading Guns, Germs, and Steel...just trying to understand it a little better
2007-01-15 14:21:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
the first people here, they have been in Australia for 40,000 years or more, making them possibly the oldest races in the world. then the British colonisers/invaders turned up in 1770 and proceeded to kill/rape/poison them. they now form about 0.05% of the population... they suffer from many of the social problems typical of displaced indigenous races around the world. very sad and shameful what has happened and continues to happen to this amazing culture...
2007-01-15 14:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by uenuku 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It isn't fully known exactly where they came from. Chances are they came from Africa through India and New Guinea, at a time when there was a land bridge from New Guinea to Australia. It's thought they've been in Australia for between forty and seventy thousand years, though there is some evidence that they came here significantly earlier.
When European settlers arrived from the 1770s, it was decided that because the Aborigines didn't put up fences or farm crops, they didn't own the land. Therefore it was claimed by Britain, and the Aborigines were largely killed by disease, starvation and plain old murder. It was illegal to kill them, but the law wasn't really enforced for quite a while since there was a tendency for governments to pretend they didn't exist, in an effort to justify taking their country.
2007-01-15 22:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life started in Africa. The people known as Australian Aboriginies would have traveled through the middle east, India, south east asia, over land bridges in Indonesia and down into the Australian continent. The Aboriginies would have some influences from the places they travelled but they are pretty much unique, some other races of people resemble them but are not anything like them, Aboriginies have been given their own race name because they do not fit in any other race, just understand they are their own race, totally unique. And believe me i know I am a learned Anglo-Saxon Australian
2007-01-15 22:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by Josh 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm still tripping off of the magazine name. Guns, Germs and Steel? What kind of magazine is that? I've never heard of that!
2007-01-15 22:41:40 · answer #4 · answered by ♦ Phoenix Rising♦ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think I read somewhere that they arrived in Australia as early as 60,000 years ago. And I think that their unique physical appearance has to do with isolation. It's analogous to the unique species of animals that are only found in Australia (Kangaroos, Koala bears, etc).
2007-01-15 22:43:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All I know is that supposedly they have the oldest preserved culture ever, and some have dark skin, blond hair and blue eyes
2007-01-15 22:53:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but before the whites came to Australia the aborigines lived like cavemen...
2007-01-15 22:37:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
They're of African-Indian descent.
2007-01-15 22:25:04 · answer #8 · answered by 412 KiD 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
they are blue. With little antenna like those guys on star trek.
2007-01-15 22:25:55 · answer #9 · answered by Jotun 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋