Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History

History

Paper instructions:
History Assignment Year 7

Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History

• Describe significant features of indigenous cultures prior to colonisation
• Explain the ways indigenous and non-indigenous people of the world have responded to contact to each other
• Identify different contexts, perspectives and interpretations of the past
• Uses of historical terms and concepts in appropriate contexts
• Select and use appropriate oral and written and other forms including ICT to communicate effectively about the past
TASK
You are required to research and present a four minute speech based on the following statement:
”The Incas were ‘better off’ after the Spanish colonisation of South America’s”
Argue against the statement.
Discuss at least three of the following –
• health
• culture
• wealth
• technology
• religion