chapter 23 australia and new zealand Flashcards
(20 cards)
1788
British settlers landed in Australia
Aboriginal Australians
first people to migrate to Australia
boomerang
used as a weapon
1867
gold was discovered in queensland
stolen generation
indigenous children who where forcibly taken from there parents by Australian authorities and raised in government or religious institutions.
1901
Australians gained there independence from great Britain and achieved dominion status
settled new zealand
probably polynesians
developed the maori culture
Polynesians
1642
the maori were fiesty people. Gave Abel Tasman trouble when he discovered the island. They killed his men.
1769
British explorer james cook landed and established relations with the Maori.
February 6, 1840
group of Maori chiefs sighned the treaty of waitangi in wich they recognized the British monarch as there sovreighn.
1845
opposition to land sales resulted in Maori uprising. Marked the land wars.
1872
war ended. Maori power broke, government seized land.
Australian government
federal parliamentary constitutional marchy
National capital new zealand
Canberra
Haka
War dance
koauau+nguru
maori flutes
digerido
long hollow wooden wind instrment
bullroarer
instrament
Whanau
Maori word for family.