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Elaboration (5) ACHASSK083

studying totems in the lives of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and examining the differences between their totems

Elaboration ACHASSK084

identifying key individuals and groups who established contacts with Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania during the European age of discovery

Elaboration (1) ACHASSK084

investigating what motivated countries to explore and colonise

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK084

examining the journey of one or more explorers (for example, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan), using navigation maps to reconstruct their journeys

examining the journey of one or more explorers of the Australian coastline (for example, the Macassans, Dirk Hartog, Abel Tasman, James Cook, Comte de la Perouse) using navigation maps to reconstruct their journeys

Elaboration (3) ACHASSK084

examining the impact of European exploration or colonisation on ONE society

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investigating networks of exchange and what was exchanged between different groups of people (for example, ideas, spices, food, slaves)

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recognising that people from many continents have explored parts of the world (for example, Zheng He, Ibn Battuta)

Elaboration ACHASSK085

investigating reasons for the First Fleet journey, including an examination of the wide range of crimes punishable by transportation, and looking at the groups who were transported

Elaboration (1) ACHASSK085

investigating attitudes to the poor, the treatment of prisoners at that time, and the social standing of those who travelled to Australia on the First Fleet, including families, children and convict guards

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK085

investigating daily life in the Botany Bay penal settlement and challenges experienced by the people there and how they were managed

Elaboration ACHASSK086

investigating contact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples before 1788 (for example, the repulsion of the Dutch at Cape Keerweer in 1606 and the trade between the Macassans and the Yolngu people)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSK086

comparing the European concept of land ownership, including terra nullius, with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' relationship with the land, sea, waterways and sky, and how this affected relations between the groups

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK086

exploring early contact of Aboriginal people with the British including people (for example, Pemulwuy, Bennelong) and events of conciliation and resistance (such as the Black War)

Elaboration (3) ACHASSK086

exploring the impact that British colonisation had on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (dispossession; dislocation; and the loss of lives through conflict, disease, loss of food sources and medicines)

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considering whether the interactions between Europeans and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples had positive or negative effects

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examining paintings and accounts (by observers such as Watkin Tench and David Collins) to determine the impact of early British colonisation on Aboriginal Peoples' Country

Elaboration ACHASSK087

using geographical tools (for example, a globe, a wall map or digital application such as Google Earth) to identify the major countries of Africa and South America and their relative locations

Elaboration (1) ACHASSK087

using a globe to investigate the Great Circle routes of aeroplane travel between Australia and the major countries of Africa and South America

Elaboration (2) ACHASSK087

researching the main types of natural vegetation and native animals in a climate zone in Australia, and comparing them with those found in a similar climate in Africa or South America

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