Question

Class - 11
History

A description of the sydney area in 1790 - page. 227

1. What do you mean by Aboriginal production?

2. Who is new comers?

3. What were the activities of the natives ?

4. What is the name of the book from which this passage has been taken ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

THIS chapter recounts some aspects of the histories of the

native peoples of America and Australia. Theme 8 described

the history of the Spanish and Portuguese colonisation of

South America. From the eighteenth century, more areas of

South America, Central America, North America, South Africa,

Australia and New Zealand came to be settled by immigrants

from Europe. This led to many of the native peoples being

pushed out into other areas. The European settlements were

called ‘colonies’. When the European inhabitants of the

colonies became independent of the European ‘mothercountry’, these colonies became ‘states’ or countries.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, people from

Asian countries also migrated to some of these countries.

Today, these Europeans and Asians form the majority in

these countries, and the number of the native inhabitants

are very small. They are hardly seen in the towns, and people

have forgotten that they once occupied much of the country,

and that the names of many rivers, towns, etc. are derived

from ‘native’ names (e.g. Ohio, Mississippi and Seattle in

the USA, Saskatchewan in Canada, Wollongong and

Parramatta in Australia).

Till the middle of the twentieth century, American and

Australian history textbooks used to describe how

Europeans ‘discovered’ the Americas and Australia. They

hardly mentioned the native peoples except to suggest that

they were hostile to Europeans. These peoples were,

however, studied by anthropologists in America from the

1840s. Much later, from the 1960s, the native peoples were

encouraged to write their own histories or to dictate them

(this is called oral history).

Today, it is possible to read historical works and fiction

written by the native peoples, and visitors to museums in

these countries will see galleries of ‘native art’ and special

museums which show the aboriginal way of life. The new

National Museum of the American Indian in the