FRONTIER WARS

Question 1

What were the reasons why the British colonised?

Answer 1

–> More land for convicts
–> The idea of ‘Terra Nulius’
–> New environment allowed new opportunities after the Industrialised Revolution
–> Empowerment - another country to their collection
–> To gain the land before the French

Question 2

Over how many years did the Frontier Wars happen?

Answer 2

40 years between Indigenous Australians and European settlers

Question 3

Which country did the British feel challenged by?

Answer 3

France

Question 4

What disease did the British (unknowingly/knowingly - for u to decide) bring to Australia?

Answer 4

Small pox

Question 5

Common features of massacres

Answer 5

–> usually planned rather than spontaneous
–> attackers and victims know each other - a relation ship has been established
–> one sided event, ensuring that victims are relatively undefended
–> usually carried out in secret - no eye witnesses to be present (code of silence between attackers to deny the massacre)

Question 6

Colonial frontier massacre

Answer 6

The deliberate killing of six or more relatively undefended people in one operation