VCHHK137
Different experiences and perspectives of non-Europeans and their perspectives on changes to society, significant events, ideas, beliefs and values
Elaborations
- Australia
- investigating sources that record the reactions of new arrivals to other countries in this period, for example, responses to the natural environment and climate
- investigating the experiences of a specific group of arrivals to Australia, for example, convicts in Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane or free settlers in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth or Darwin
- describing the impact of this group on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of the region
- investigating the differing views of pastoralists and gold miners and how they influenced Victoria
- examining the experiences of non-Europeans in Australia prior to the 1900s, such as the Japanese, Chinese, South Sea Islanders, Afghans
- outlining the migration of Chinese to the goldfields in Australia in the nineteenth century and attitudes towards the Chinese as revealed in cartoons, for example, the Mongolian Octopus
- Asia
- analysing Commissioner Lin Zexu’s letter to Queen Victoria before the outbreak of the First Opium War 1839-42
- analysing the ideas that influenced the perspectives of the Society of Righteous Harmonious Fists, Yi He Tuan (The Boxers)
- comparing and contrast different perspectives about the effect of European colonisation of India or China or Indochina
- analysing different perspectives of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
VCHHK137 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Australia and Asia
