The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora, and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of the British Empire. It further covers the European scientific exploration of the continent and the establishment of the other Australian colonies that make up the modern states of Australia. WebThe European colonisation of Australia, was accompanied by epidemic diseases to which the original inhabitants had little resistance. Colds, influenzas, tuberculosis (TB), and measles were major killers. [1] Such diseases devastated Aboriginal populations, weakened their cultures, and often left them in no position to resist the newcomers.

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WebHEALTH. The most immediate consequence of colonisation was a wave of epidemic diseases including smallpox, measles and influenza, which spread ahead of the settlement frontier and annihilated many Indigenous communities. Governor Phillip reported that smallpox had killed half of the Indigenous people in the Sydney region within fourteen … WebThe Europeans who arrived in Australia from 1788 onwards had developed some resistance to smallpox because they’d been exposed to it before. But the local First Nations peoples had never come into contact with the … university of oregon post bac

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WebA Great Deal of Sickness: Introduced Diseases Among the Aboriginal People of Colonial Southeast Australia, 1788-1900 Peter John Dowling Australian National University, 1999 - 349 pages 0... WebThe Europeans who arrived in Australia from 1788 onwards had developed some resistance to smallpox because they’d been exposed to it before. But the local First … rebel not ye against the lord neither fear