Effects Of European Colonization Of Australia And Indonesia

The colonization’s of Australia and Indonesia by European settlers has shaped historic events and has compressed or vanquished customs and cultures. The colonization of Australia and Indonesia hold negative and positive aspects in history; forced labor, slavery, racial segregation and the loss of many cultures were horrific incidents within Indonesia’s and Australia’s history. However without these occurrences we might not have had the improvement of modern- day technology, arts, literature and science.

Indonesia’s colonization was due to the sea lanes - prime location for trading and their exotic resources. Within the first decade of the 16th century the Dutch became the largest European group within Indonesia and had established the Dutch