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worksheet 1

Year 7 SOSE

Write the questions and your answers in a word document and save in your documents file in your SOSE Term 4 2008 folder

1. What were the occupations of some of the people who visited Australia before the British Government claimed the land?

2. Who was the first Englishman to discover Australia?

3. What was his occupation?

4. Why is Captain James Cook important in Australian history?

5. Who was Captain Arthur Philip?

6. Why are these two dates important in Australian history? 

1770                                                        26 January 1788

7. Why were convicts sent to Australia?

8. Name a crime they may have committed in England?

9. What Bay did the British visit first, before sailing north to a better harbour?

10. What was the original name given to Sydney Harbour by Captain Arthur Philip?

11. Who were the first Australians?

12. What is the Dreamtime or Dreaming?

13. Write a paragraph about the Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow snake story.

14. What other events in Australian history do you know about?