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The first people(or inhabitants) of Australia were the aborigines. They first migrated 60,000 years ago.
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In the late 1700s, Captain James Cook claimed Australia and New Zealand for Great Britain.
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The british finally settled Australia in 1788.
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The British Settlement grew in the 1800s.
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Aborigines send a letter to Britian Queen Victoria describing the living conditions.
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In 1851, colonists found gold and the British population grew tremendously.
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The British forced the Aborrigines off their land but a fight broke out between the two.
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By the early 1900s, Japan, the U.S., France, and Great Britain controlled most of the Pacific islands but British still control Australia.
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In the early 1900s, Australia and New Zealand both Gained their independence peacefully.
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The british practiced forced asiimilation and ethnocentrism against the Aborigines.
