Explanation T-Chart

What

The first contact between English settlers and Aborigines was disastrous.
Why

1. The settlers abused the Aborigines

· Aborigines could be shot on sight

· Beaten and killed

· Forced into slavery

2. Settlers brought diseases

· Aborigines had no immunities to diseases

· Alarming decrease in population

3. Aboriginal culture was demolished

· Half of languages were lost

· Weren’t allowed some cultural practices

· Land was lost

4. Settlers thought Aborigines were ignorant and unintelligent

· John Mann described the rock drawings as simple and without meaning