Charles Darwin's Theory Of Natural Selection

The Myall Creek Massacre in Colonial Australia was caused by arising conflict from British imperialism as the greed for land and goods caused the English to disregard the rights of the Australian natives. In pursuit of resources and Newmarket’s, Britain colonised the majority of the world and the ramifications of this have continued into today. Firstly, upon colonising the land, settlers were continuing to ship convicts to Australia, due to America refusing the convicts after the War of Independence. The tensions that arose as a result of British colonisation culminated several episodes of conflict such as the Myall Creek Massacre. This event occurred as the result of escalating tensions between white settlers and the Aborigines which

When the British arrived in 1788 roughly 500,000 Aboriginal people lived on the continent of Australia. Today only 270,000 remain. Governor Macquarie, tried to do what he described as “civilize” them, which meant

The arrival of the free settlers to Australia had both immediate and long term impacts on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, all of which contributed to the decline of indigenous people and their culture. In the short term, the arrival of free settlers had only negative impacts on the indigenous people, causing violent outbreaks, dispossession of land as well the death of many by disease. In the long term, the effects were also negative as the population and culture of indigenous people had been reduced severely.

-White settlement affected the Indigenous people in a number of ways”{They} made them (the Aboriginals) outcasts on their own land*” by calling it terra nullius under the English Law, despite knowing the existence of the Aboriginals. Terra nullius is a latin term that means “land that belongs to no one.”They believed it belonged to no one because the Aboriginals didn’t use the land in the same way as the British. The Aboriginals believed that Mother Nature would provide them with what they needed, so they didn’t need to hunt and mark the land. The British completely ignored the deep spiritual connections the Aboriginals had with the land. They cut down trees, put up fences and built towns. They believed they had to own the land. But the Aboriginals were outraged when saw the settlers building farms where they had originally been hunting and gathering at, this was because there wasn’t enough food for them. They killed many white settlers in revenge and a clash of cultures began. Pemulwuy was an Aboriginal warrior that lead raids against the British. He also speared John McIntyre, Governor Phillip's gamekeeper, in December 1790. When the Indigenous people resisted the British, it lead to many conflicts which eventually left a irreversible damage to the lives of Indigenous people.

Genocide is not a feature of warfare or rule that can be unilaterally blamed on European nations. It was a natural outgrowth of a people's desire to devastate another group of people for some purpose such as to steal land or gain an economic advantage. The Europeans who sailed to North America were skilled in this particular form of warfare having practiced it on one another for centuries, but they did not have to introduce it to the aboriginal tribes they found there. When the Dutch established a colony at Manhattan, they discovered a group of people who were both warriors and farmers called the Mohawk. This tribe fought in a particular manner that was meant to bring terror to their foes much as Hitler with his blitzkrieg or the United States with its "shock and awe" both of which would come centuries later (Axelrod 2011, 64). During a series of wars termed "Beaver Wars", these Mohawks, along with their partner tribes, waged a genocidal warfare that destroyed or dispersed those they were warring against. The Iroquois, traditional enemies of the Algonquian Federation who were allied with the French, sought to expand their fur hunting territory as a consequence of English/Dutch pressure to produce more fur, and the promise of aid in their fight against enemy tribes.

European settlement had a negative impact on the Indigenous Australians and it provided a catalyst for the destruction of Indigenous society. The impact of European settlement on the Indigenous people of Australia was disastrous due to many things such as taking land that belonged to the Aboriginal people. Though there were some attempts to understand each culture, it led to various massacres and conflicts around Australia which had caused a decline in the Aboriginal population. Apart from the violence, the Europeans had brought diseases to Australia which wiped out generations at a time and had a dramatic effect on the

The European invasion of Australia in 1780 impacted upon the lives of all the Aboriginal people that lived in and around the invaded areas. When Captain Cook landed in Australia, he declared it as Terra Nullius, and this alone gives a significant insight as to the mentality of the British and their willingness to acknowledge the Aboriginal people and the importance that the land played in their daily lives. As the invaders brought with them their laws, ideals, diseases, livestock and people, the need for land increased and settlers began to venture outwards from the main settlements, the frontier broadened and the Aboriginal population began to shrink. The encroachment upon the land meant that many Aboriginal people were now being forced

It has been estimated that between 1788 and 1900, the Indigenous population of Australia was reduced by 90%. The three overarching reasons for this dramatic population decline included, the introduction of new diseases, settler acquisition of Indigenous lands and direct and violent conflict with the British colonisers. The most immediate and critical consequence of the invasion was the wave of epidemic diseases which spread ahead of the settlement frontier and annihilated many Indigenous communities. These infectious diseases included smallpox, measles and influenza, all diseases that the indigenous people had never suffered from in epidemic proportions. Within only fourteen months of the arrival of the First Fleet, Governor Phillip reported that smallpox had killed half of the Indigenous people in the Sydney region.

Before the First Fleet, consisting of eleven ships, arrived in Botany Bay on the 26th of January 1788, it is known that there were approximately 750 000 Aboriginals living in Australia. Today there are only about 250 000 (Harding, 2001). They all made many, both positive and negative impacts on the Aboriginals. Whilst they brought several diseases which wiped out much of the population and kidnapped many Aboriginal people, the British also showed many technologies to the Native people and introduced them to the modern world.

The settlement of white Europeans in Australia was one of the most notable yet swept-under-the-rug events in history, just like other instances of he theft of land from rightful indigenous people. To Australia, Europeans brought with them disease, violence, and widespread turmoil, but also mechanic technology and advancements in communication and medicine. There are multiple sides to this debate, from the perspective of a native Australian, European invasion was horrific and ruined the natural order in place within the land, but a modern white man may say that settlement increased international ties and evolved the nation and functionality of Aboriginal life with

Good day class and sir. On the 26th of January 1788 14 English ships carrying convicts and soldiers arrived in Australia. Upon arrival captain Arthur Phillip planned to live with the indigenous people in harmony. Soon that changed, when the indigenous were being killed by British convicts that disliked them. The Aboriginals were thought as backward, unproductive and an obstacle to development.

His book ' The Fatal Shore' illustrates how the native people were devalued, degraded and ultimately murdered. It states that they were ' shot like kangaroos and poisoned like dogs' (p.127). This suggests that the British used many strategies in order to destroy the population and the colonial government itself was not even willing to pay respect to the Tasmanians. The native population was small, estimated between five thousand people, so contact became unavoidable. Reynold reveals that the escalation of the war was promoted by a strategy used by Arthur as he introduced a document called the proclamation. The proclamation intended to remind the native people that the British law was equal. Unfortunately this increased the number of brutal realities in the bush. Reynold points out that Arthur had no choice but to  'oppose force by force' (p.135) and declare war. The military undertook an operation known as the 'Black Line', driving the native people into the two peninsulas in the far southeast. Arthur emphasised that the Black Line would support the native people and his objective was not to kill them. Reynold notes that there was no easy answer, and the black line failed to capture the native people 'apart from an old man and boy'

Aboriginals were enslaved in many ways, some had to were chains some were arrested and or killed for taking sheep for food. The Europeans thought that because they had come to and “uninhabited” land that the people on it (indigenous Australians) had to follow their rules and what the Europeans thought was best, which hurt many of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. It is estimated that 90 percent of the Aboriginal population declined between 1788 and 1900, from violence, dispossession and disease (William,

The process of colonisation by European powers, as might be expected, has had a radical effect on Aboriginal culture. The settlers viewed the natives as barbarians, seizing tribal land and, in many cases, following a policy of pacification by force. Many others died of disease, starvation, cultural dislocation and neglect. Today, there are fewer than 230,000 Aborigines in Australia, less than 2% of the population.

Charles Darwin broached the theory of natural selection in his book the Origin of Species, which has been considered the basis of evolutionary biology to this day. Natural selection is when populations of a species evolve over the course of many generations. Darwin believed that species were not created separately, but instead, species were derived from one another. In other words, the evolution of species creates many variations among creatures, and this is because all of those species came from a common ancestor, and characteristics changed to increase the species chance of survival.