Weekly History Quiz No.245
1. Who was an Official Australian Photographer during both WWI and WWII, as well as accompanying three Antarctic Expeditions?
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Weekly History Quiz No.244
1. Founded in 1540, which organisation was better known as the Jesuits?
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Weekly History Quiz No.243
1. Which Native American confederation reached an agreement of mutual defense and trade with the British colonists at Plymouth in 1621?
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Weekly History Quiz No.242
1. Which country made huge profits from the Mexico-Manila galleon trade from 1565 to 1815?
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Weekly History Quiz No.241
1.The 1915 Gallipoli landings involved soldiers from the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand and which other country?
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Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple
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Farmers versus foragers is a huge oversimplification of what was a mosaic of food production. After all, Australian landscapes differ markedly, from tropical rainforest to snowy mountains to arid spinifex country. For many Aboriginal people, the terms “farming” and “hunter-gatherer” do not capture the realities of 60 millennia of food production.
Weekly History Quiz No.240
1.How long was the Republic of Venice in existence?
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Weekly History Quiz No.239
1.What was the codename for the Allied landing in Southern France in August 1944?
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Weekly History Quiz No.238
1.When did Abraham Lincoln make the emancipation proclamation?
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Weekly History Quiz No.237
1. In which year did George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappear on Mount Everest?
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Our mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland. This is why truth-telling matters
Reading time: 6 minutes The Native Mounted Police operated in Queensland for 80 years, starting in 1849. It consisted of small groups of between six and 15 Aboriginal troopers under the command of white officers. The troopers were typically recruited from areas far from where they were sent to serve. Detachments of troopers were regularly sent out on patrol, covering large areas along the frontier of the colony in pursuit of Indigenous people who were considered to be “problematic”. Their main job was to protect civilian settlers, the lands they had taken up, and their livelihoods – by whatever means necessary.
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Weekly History Quiz No.236
1. How long elapsed between the Romans founding Londinium and its destruction by Boudicca?
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