miércoles, 5 de octubre de 2011

The First Australians




1. The British arrived in Australia in what year?  How does this year correspond to their colonies and activities elsewhere in the Empire?
1788, the year before they’ve lost their colonies in USA

2. What was the original landing site of their arrival called by the Aborigines and what was it renamed by the British?
Australians called it Warang and de British named it Sydney

3.  Who was on the British ship and what was their interest in Australia at the time?
Governor Phillip, they wanted to set up a Britishness that was for Britain

4.  What was the Dreaming or Dreamtime in Aboriginal spirituality?
Is the environment the aboriginal people lived in, and expressed in rituals, ceremonies and paintings. The physic state in which they made contact w/ ancestral spirits.

5. Who was the Aborigine who took on a significant role among the settlers and, later, in England itself?
Truganini


6.  How would you characterize his situation, or, what do you think he was thinking he was going to accomplish?
Because she wanted to know how they lived and how it was and make  a relationship w/ them

7.  How does the British Australian experience of colonization differ and how does it overlap with their previous attempts in North America, which includes Canada Marien, and India?
It differs that the Australian colonization was very violent because Australians were very angry because of the arrival of British people. It overlap because Britain established a colony there.  

8. Bonus Question: What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Put him in the long boat 'til he's sober.
Shave his belly with a rusty razor.
Put him in bed with the Captain's daughter.
Put him the back of the paddy wagon.
Tickle down below with a feather duster.
Tie him to a sheep and call him Taffy.




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