Colonization

Colonization

  In 1787 the European colonization started. Eleven full ships with slaves left England with a course south. It was one of the participants at the James Cook expedition, who had proposed that the new land could be used as a relieve for the overflowing English prisons. It came more free people to Australia after the first forced colonization. Later when the gold was found in 1850 it also came seriously a lot of immigrants. When they later on transported sheep from England to South-Africa they got a solid economical development and Australia became a nation. In 1868 they stopped all transports of prisoners from England. Through the latest 81 years more than 160 000 criminals had found their way to the other side of the earth. Almost all of the criminals were British. As we can see, hundreds of thousand people came to Australia. Slaves, gold diggers, immigrants and so on. This had a big influence on the language in the country, Australia. Today we say that Australia is an English speaking country.

 

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