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Student book questions
7.1 The first Australians
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Check your learning 7.1
Remember and understand
1 What is the ‘Out of Africa’ theory? According to this theory, when did people first arrive in Australia?
2 How do scientists think the earliest Indigenous peoples travelled from Asia to Australia?
3 Why did the earliest humans begin moving out of Africa around 100 000 years ago?
Apply and analyse
4 According to the beliefs of many Indigenous Australians, when did people first arrive in Australia? How
did they arrive?
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Evaluate and create
5 Use the Internet to research the history of Indigenous peoples in Tasmania. List three ways in which
their cultures and ways of life were different from groups on the mainland of Australia. What were the
reasons for these differences?