VCHHK134
Intended and unintended causes and effects of contact and extension of settlement of European power(s), including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Elaborations
- Australia
- evaluating the effects of the movement of peoples on the indigenous and immigrant populations.
- explaining the effects of contact, for example, the massacres of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; their killing of sheep; the spread of European diseases, frontier violence, and categorising these effects as either intended or unintended
- investigating the forcible removal of children from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in the late nineteenth century/early twentieth century (leading to the Stolen Generations), such as the motivations for the removal of children, the practices and laws that were in place, and experiences of separation
- Asia
- describing the British Raj and the forms of British influence in India, for example, the building of roads, an extensive railway network, schools and Christian missions
- describing the causes of European imperialism in China and the effects of the Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion in China
- analysing the effects of Commodore Matthew Perry diplomatic mission to Japan to force open Japanese ports to American trade culminating in the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa 1954
VCHHK134 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Australia and Asia