Making a nation

Question 1

Meaning of Imperialism

Answer 1

The policy or act of extending a country’s power into other territories or gaining control over another country’s politics or economics

Question 2

Meaning of Enlightenment

Answer 2

The period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society during the ‘long’ 18th century

Question 3

Meaning of Revolution

Answer 3

A radical change in the established order, usually the established government and social institutions.

Question 4

Who was claiming the land

Answer 4

Europeans claiming of the land took place in many different ways.

Question 5

What is terra nulius

Answer 5

The loss of land (terra nullius) + Aboriginal land was taken over by British colonists on the premise that the land belonged to no-one

Question 6

Non europeans

Answer 6

People from South Asia and the Middle East working with camels in central Australia. South Sea Islanders working on sugar plantations in north Queensland.

Question 7

Japanese

Answer 7

Japanese in the pearl industry in north Queensland and around Broome in Western Australia

Question 8

Chinese

Answer 8

Chinese who came during the gold rushes but then stayed on to become traders and manufacturers