Australia has changed a lot in the last 250 years. Before 1788 there were around 250 languages spoken in Australia and a population of 750 000.
Many of the 250 languages were spoken by the indigenous people in Australia but many of the languages died out as the indigenous people were murdered and became fewer and fewer.
When the English people came to Australia with the first fleet which consisted of 11 ships in 1788 the indigenous people were killed and suppressed by the English people.
The English people used the Aboriginal as slaves to build up their empire and conquer Australia.
When the Englishmen came to Australia they weren’t welcomed with houses and farms, they had to build up a whole continent and make it modern. Unfortunately for the English people they weren’t prepared for what they came to, it was a whole new climate. New animals, new plants, new weather, new everything. They didn’t know what they could eat and which animal was friendly, so many of them died because of all the ignorance. …show more content…
This was a big problem because they wanted to become strong and powerful so they reproduce as much as they could, but they felt as if they needed to make Australia christian to feel powerful, that why they took the Aboriginal children and raised them to christians.
But that wasn’t the only problem that the English people got, if you live in two separate places of earth, you will probably have different diseases and parasites so when the first fleet arrived many of the people aboard got sick from the indigenous people and the other way around A good example is smallpox that was the principal cause of Aboriginal deaths, it killed 90% of the Darug people that was an indigenous tribe. Some people think that the Englishmen released the virus as a defense when they ran out of ammo to their weapons but didn’t think they would get