ipl-logo

18th Century Australia Essay

608 Words3 Pages

Late 18th century Australia started to change into what it is now our modern day society. During this period many regretful things happened. Events from stealing the aboriginal land all the way to the stolen generation in early 1900’s. In 1788 a fleet of 11 ships from England, came to Australia. Half were residents and half were criminals from Britain, Africa, America and France. Aboriginals living in the Eora region were first to have their land stolen. This region is now called Botany Bay, a city located off the coast of NSW. After the European settlement a small number of Chinese immigrants came as labourers, convicts and free settlers. However, the 1850 Victoria and 1860 New South Wales gold rushes was when the Chinese people voyaged with …show more content…

This meant big bucks for the discoverer of gold in NSW, Australia, Edward Hargraves. Victorian authorities were jealous and were determined to find gold over there, so they rewarded a prize to whoever could found gold within 200 miles of Melbourne, Victoria. 6 months’ later gold was found, in Ballarat and then Bendigo. In 2 years the state population had increased by 460,000. 50% of that increase were Chinese immigrants and they came to collect gold. Unfortunately, there weren’t many new sites but luckily, the Chinese targeted sites that had already been searched by the Europeans, because they admired every little speck of gold. They recognised that the Europeans would miss much of the gold hidden in the soil. The unfamiliar tools they used to mine helped them notice the little specks left behind. The cradle, the easiest method although to function properly required three people. Acted as a filter, trapped the bigger chunks in the soil wastage such as large rocks and pieces of debris to then leave them with the gold. The pan, looked like a tin bowl, this method was done more manually, they scooped up sedimentary from a creek with the pan, then the miner would swirl out the muddy water leaving the gold specks at the bottom. The miners were often men because research suggests that only 20% of the Chinese immigrants were females, I believe this is because it was a man’s job to do the dirty

Show More
Related
708 Words | 3 Pages

Document 5 explains the labor needed to produce all the silver that leave Potosi; the purpose of the document is to show the public how, in order to have 326,000,000 silver coins produced for the economy, Indian workers must struggle every day. In document 1, the major silver mines are located largely in Spanish-owned territories and the metal is then traded to areas in England such as the Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal. These are some countries which benefitted the most from the flow of silver because they were able to trade in Russia, the Ottoman Empire, the East Indies, and Ming China; this is why the arrows extend from one central point, England, and go to other nations from there

Read More
644 Words | 3 Pages

Amelia Johnston Mr. D'auria October 21, 2015 The flow of silver between the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century changed the social and economic structures of many different countries and states. Tokugawa Japan and Spanish colonial America lead the global flow of silver from 1500 to 1750. The flow of silver had positive effects socially and economically in those two places. Contrastingly, Ming China and Britain both struggled with the new flow of silver.

Read More
755 Words | 4 Pages

From 1500 to 1750, silver production in the world was led by Spanish Colonial America and Tokugawa Japan. Silver trade was lead through a connection between four great continents, but there was no direct trade link between America and Asia. In that time, limits were placed on the amount of silver spent, prices increased and decreased depending on the supply of silver and silver production led to more importation and exportation of goods, as well as new ways to pay also developed due to silver production. In the 1570s, the Ming Chinese government stated that all taxes and trade fees should be paid in silver. Most silver flowed over the Pacific, out of Acapulco, to Manila, ending in China.

Read More
1086 Words | 5 Pages

This had impact on the Victoria history due to how multicultural Victoria is compared to other countries. If the gold rush never happened Australia might be very well another type of country. Right when it started many of other states factory and shops went empty. 80% of police left their jobs all for that gold and wealth.

Read More
530 Words | 3 Pages

Silver was said to be the “product most responsible for the birth of world trade” and was considered valuable/profitable to various countries. China was the main consumer of silver which led all the silver mines in the world to sell silver to China. Although China was a pivotal country and played an important role in the birth of world trade, it was neglected due to eurocentrism. Silver was introduced

Read More
1390 Words | 6 Pages

As iron axes and ox-drawn plows replaced stone, wood, and bronze tools, farmers produces more foods. Peasants also began to grow new crops, and feudal lard would sometimes organize large scale irrigation works making farming more productive and a surplus of food. The Chinese also began to use money for the first time. Chinese cooper coins had holes in the center so that they could be strung onto cords.” Zhou dynasties also help the merchants by building new roads and canals.

Read More
834 Words | 4 Pages

As the world grew more populated, to many Australians it seemed that Great Britain was both a physically long way and also very different to Australia. The Australia of pre World War II was now very different to the Australia colonised by the British so many years earlier. In 1919, Australia had, for the very first time, been considered a fully self-governing nation and was asked independently of Great Britain to be a part of the Treaty of Versailles (Carrodus, Delany and McArthur, 2012). Prior to this, Britain was responsible for all political agreements for Australia (Museum of Australian Democracy).

Read More
401 Words | 2 Pages

The word got out that there was gold in Ophir, Orange. People from across the globe travelled to Ophir, Orange hoping they could claim some gold as their own. Within one year, Australia’s population was raised to 540,000. 370,000 people were immigrants. When people landed in Ophir, Orange in search of gold, people

Read More
1216 Words | 5 Pages

Dr. Shellen Wu’s article, titled The Search for Coal in the Age of Empires: Ferdinand von Richtofen’s Odyssey in China, 1860-1920, is about the movement from wood to coal as the leading fuel source all over the world in the late nineteenth century, and how geologist, Ferdinand von Richthofen, played a huge role in this discovery of coal as an abundant source of energy in China. The second sentence of the article clearly sums up Dr. Wu’s thesis. She states, “On the basis of his [Richthofen’s] travels over the next four years and seven expeditions, Richthofen coined the term Seidenstrasse (Silk Road); correctly hypothesized the origin of loess, the yellowish silt-like material covering much of North China; and described to the outside world vast deposits of coal in the Chinese interior.” Dr. Wu’s article goes along with the theme that we’ve discussed in class all semester, which is, “how have technological advancements throughout history

Read More
1030 Words | 5 Pages

The book, “The Year 1000, When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began” by Valerie Hansen, is a Yale professor that teaches Chinese and world history. In the first three chapters, Hansen talks about the exploration of the land including the Vikings, and the silk road, and how they came to be. With all of the trading, craftsmen had to figure out how to get their product to many different places, “As always the case, geography played a role. The dense jungle of Panama posed a major geographical obstacle for those going overland.” (Hansen, 76), Although going on the sea route was not much easier considering the rivers could be rough.

Read More
580 Words | 3 Pages

The beginning of the white Australia policy could have started around the 1850s, when white miners would treat the Chinese miners unfairly. In 1851 the gold rush starts in New South Wales and Victoria which results in big migration from the South Sea Islands, British, Europe, china and America. In 1855 Victoria announces the first Immigration Restriction Act in Australia to lower the Chinese migration into Australia. The Buckland valley in Victoria was a home to many Chinese minors during the Victorian gold rush. But on the 4th of July 1857 one-hundred European miners violently removed the Chinese miners from this area this

Read More
889 Words | 4 Pages

It was discovered on January 24th 1848 by James Marshall in California. A quarter million people migrated to California for the chance to get rich and other personal reasons. Foreigners from all around the world came to America to either search for gold or the new opportunities open. As time progressed corporations were formed that could buy new technology and workers to search for gold and several boom towns had formed in California. As more and more people moved west the United States faced another issue.

Read More
1461 Words | 6 Pages

The Gold Rush, beginning in 1848 and ending in 1855, was a period in American history which opened the doors of opportunity to a new group of immigrants, the Chinese. The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, California, in 1848 was the cause of mass Chinese immigration that would last for decades to come. When James Marshall discovered gold in 1848, there were fifty-four recorded Chinese in California, this number quickly rose to 116,000 by 1876. Title (Chinese Immigration During the Gold Rush: The American Encounter) The California Gold Rush allowed for immigrants, such as the Chinese, to encounter the various beliefs and suspicions of the American society.

Read More
1773 Words | 8 Pages

Chinese Migration Flow to Australia during Gold Rush Starting from 1851, a gold rush was launched in Australia, which was another major world-class gold rush after the California Gold Rush. The gold rush was one of the most significant events in Australian history, allowing Australia to follow in the footsteps of the United States into the golden age of capitalist development. As a result, Australia attracted a large number of workers from around the world, of which Chinese workers were an important part. The Chinese workforce has contributed greatly to the development of Australia and has contributed to the progress and development of Australian society. This article will focus on the gold rush in Australia and analyze the reasons, ways and

Read More
1486 Words | 6 Pages

In 754 AD nearly 5000 Turkish, Iranian, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Malayan people lived in Changan, Making Changan one of the most metropolitan cities on the Silk Road, an anomaly because it wasn't located on a river or coast as most trade cities like Tyre and Antioch were. C. Cities on the Silk Road were essential for its success and modern understanding of it. 1. Cities Lanzhou and Kashgar have been invaluable to archeologists, well preserved and containing multitudes of records, model of the Silk Road. IV. North and South routes became distinguished from lesser-used paths.

Read More

More about 18th Century Australia Essay

Related Topics

Open Document