Aborigines [aborijineez]
Aborigines where the first people to live in Australia. The word Aborigine comes from the Latin phrase ab origine, meaning from the beginning. Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and evidence for that people have been living there for about 130,000 years ago have been found at lake George near Canberra. Most scientists believe that the aborigines come from southeastern Asia from the beginning.
In Australia there were nearly 600 territorially defined groups which where living on hunting and gathering food. They had a population of 300 0001 million. The Europeans arrived to Australia in 1788. At first many aborigines thought that the newcomers, whit their pale skin, where spirits of their own dead relatives.
The numbers felled dramatically when the Europeans came. There where many conflicts between the Aborigines and the Europeans, in those many Aborigines died. By 1933 the population had fallen to nearly 66 000, but then......
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