Question

Why didn't the European explorers trade with Australia in the 1300s?​

Answer 1

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The European exploration of Australia first began in February 1606, when Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed in Cape York Peninsula and on October that year when Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, Torres Strait islands.[1] Twenty-nine other Dutch navigators explored the western and southern coasts in the 17th century, and dubbed the continent New Holland.

Melchisédech Thévenot (1620?–1692): map of New Holland 1664, based on a map by the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu. This is a typical map from the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. Australasia during the Golden Age of Dutch exploration and discovery (c. 1590s–1720s): including Nova Guinea (New Guinea), Nova Hollandia (mainland Australia), Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and Nova Zeelandia (New Zealand).

Other European explorers followed until, in 1770, Lieutenant James Cook charted the east coast of Australia for Great Britain. Later, after Cook's death, Joseph Banks recommended sending convicts to Botany Bay (now in Sydney), New South Wales. A First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788[2] to establish a penal colony, the first colony on the Australian mainland. In the century that followed, the British established other colonies on the continent, and European explorers ventured into its interior.

Massive areas of land were cleared for agriculture and various other purposes in the first 100 years of European settlement. In addition to the obvious impacts[clarification needed] this early clearing of land and importation of hard-hoofed animals had on the ecology of particular regions, it severely affected indigenous Australians, by reducing the resources they relied on for food, shelter and other essentials. This progressively forced them into smaller areas and reduced their numbers as the majority died of newly introduced diseases and lack of resources. Indigenous resistance against the settlers was widespread, and prolonged fighting between 1788 and the 1920s led to the deaths of at least 20,000 indigenous people and between 2,000 and 2,500 Europeans.[3]

Answer 2

The European explorers did not trade with Australia in the 1300s since Australia had not been discovered by the Europeans at that time.

• The first European to reach Australia was the dutch navigator William Janszoon.
• His expedition ended up in Australia in the year 1606.
• More comprehensive explorations and mappings of the continent were done by the British explorer Captain James Cook in 1770.
• Then European settlers kept arriving in the colony and the continent was almost completely explored by end of the 1850s.
• Australia was never a major trading partner of the Europeans. Gold was one of the only exportable items in Australia.
• So, bulk trade between Australia and the Europeans never really took off.
• Instead, Australia served as an important strategic location for control of the shipping lanes in the Pacific and hold over the South East Asian spice trade.
• Thus, the European explorers did not trade with Australia in the 1300s since Australia had not been discovered by the Europeans at that time.

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