1. Australia and New Zealand

2. Australia and New Zealand
Aborigines, Maori, Europeans, and Asians make up the population
Aborigines are the first nomadic hunter and gathers which arrived in Australia 40,000-60,000 years ago
Maoris live in New Zealand and many ancient traditions still exist
In the late 1500s Europeans began to colonize the region and used it as a prison

3. Australia and New Zealand
The earliest settlers may have migrated to the area over land bridges during the ice age
Early Aborigines lived a nomadic life
Between 900s and 1300s the Maori left Polynesia for New Zealand

4. Australia and New Zealand
British sailor James Cook claimed eastern Australia for Great Britain
1850s the imprisonment of British convicts ended
European settlers took the land from the Aborigines by force

5. Australia and New Zealand
In 1901 Britain’s Australian colonies became sates and formed the Commonwealth of Australia
The new country was a dominion
The government blended a federal style system with a parliamentary democracy style

6. Australia and New Zealand
1907 New Zealand became a dominion of Britain
They stayed with the British style parliamentary government

7. Oceania
The islands were settled by people from Asia more than 30,000 years ago
Europeans settled the area in the 1800s and used it as farm land
Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and the U.S. struggles for control of various islands in the late 1800s and early 1900s

8. Oceania
Beginning in the 1960s a number of small islands moved towards independence
In 1962 Samoa became the first island to win freedom
Most of the islands enjoy some form of independent government