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HISTORY EXTENDED ESSAY
JESSICA TELFORD
Many events in history can easily prove that mankind is a brutal race. ... When the British settlers first arrived in Western Australia, they named the area “Terra Nullius” which meant ‘no inhabitants’. However, for approximately 40,000 years the indigenous peoples, the Aboriginals, had lived there. When white settlement occurred, the British drove the Aboriginals away and took their rightful land. ...
Before actual settlement, various people of different cultures, such as the Dutch and the French, explored Western Australia many times. ... Arriving in 1829 with a group of enthusiastic settlers on the ship ‘Parmelia’, Captain James Stirling and his crew began constructing a new life in Western Australia.
Previous settlers had dubbed Western Australia as “Terra Nullius”, meaning that no one inhabited the land. It was named this as a means of driving the Aboriginals out of the area, and also because the settlers left the indigenous people with no rights; seeing that they were an uncivilised and undeveloped race due to the fact that they did not farm the land and because they had no permanent structures to represent their social development. ...
…Wherever Europeans meet with them, they
appear to wear out, and gradually to decay,
they diminish in numbers…
Another negative effect the settlers had on the Aboriginals was the destruction of their traditional lifestyle. The Aboriginals were a nomadic people; they moved around from place to place depending on the food and water supply, and the season.
Approximate Word count = 1156
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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