Wgu Economic Task 1

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ASSESSMENT UNIT : VU21481
STUDENT NAME : JYUE-YU SYU
STUDENT ID : GEC000009W

TASK1 EXAMINE THE COASTAL EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA PRIOR TO 1778

1. Tahiti/New Zealand/The Great Southern Land(Australia)
2. The sea was dangerous. The winds did not always low in the right direction for the sea travel and it was such a long way. Difficult to bring enough food and water.
3. People could make a lot of money from the trade and from gathering natural resources. People loved the idea of sea adventures and new discoreries. England was very interested in setting up a naral base. Supply post in the Southern Hemisphere.
4. Captain James Cook was a Seaman in the Royal navy. He was also an astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, photographer.
5. Seamanship
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The punishments for convicts were cruel and unpleasant. There was cat O’ nine tails: fifty lashes that was the comment punishment. Some feared was time on the chain gangs where Shackled in ankle irons or chains. Sometimes convicts were employed in the back-breaking works of marking new roads. If convicts was harsh and keen cause trouble, they were sent to isolated penal colonies or prison. At the place such as forced to work from sunrise to sunset at hard tasks. If convicts disobeyed or tired to escape they were whipped, chained in the iron or some hard punishment to general.
4. The relationship between the prison guards and convicts were definitely in bad conditions. Convicts after charge were sent to special prisons or area. Convicts who committed offence, punishment were brutal. There was fifty lashes shackled in ankle iron or chain(that was weighing 10pounds or more), or employed in the back- breaking task like marking new road. They were forced working from morning fill night, sunrise to sunset at hards task. No disobeyed or escaped or whipped, chain in iron may served! Such an unpleasant treated, rebellions and uprising were a regular occurrence.
5. Convicts life is uneasy! They were forced to work from dawn to dust at back-breaking
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The Gold Rush
2. In 1851, Edward Hargraves discovered a ‘grain of gold’ in a waterhole near Bathurst. The discovery marked the beginning of the Australian gold rushes and a radical change in the economic and social fabric of the nation. A complete mental madness appears to have seized almost every member of the community. There has been a universal rush to the diggings.
3. Hargraoes could never have dreamt how significant his discovery would be New South Wales yielded 26.4 tonnes (85000 ounces) of gold in 1852. This was a mere drop in the ocean compared to the yield from neighbouring Victoria when they joined the rush for gold. The Victorian authorities, eager to prevent it’s population from joining the gold frenzy in NSW, offered a reward of 200 for any gold found within 200 miles of Melbourne. In 1851, six months after the New South Wales find , gold was discovered at Ballarat, and a short time later at Bendigo Greek.

4. In 1852 alone, 370000 immigrants arrived in Australia and the economy of the nation boomed. The ‘rush’ was well and truly on Victoria contributed more than one third of the world’s gold output in the 1850s and in Just two years the state's population had grown from 77000 to