Why wasn't there a Scramble for Australia? (Short Animated Documentary)
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Күн бұрынWhen Europeans came across a large landmass that look easy to conquer, they generally fought amongst themselves for it. Yet unlike the Americas and Africa, there was no attempt at any other European country except for Britain to take the continent-sized Australia. So why not? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@maskthem0ney295 11 ай бұрын
The amount of historical events that can be summed up with a person holding a sign that says 'Sounds pricey' is simultaneously insane and understandable
@Warriorcats64 11 ай бұрын
And is it a Moneymaker or not? Kelly didn't think so.
@ethribin4188 11 ай бұрын
Fact
@scientificnameofpigs 11 ай бұрын
here before this blows up
@user-be7pw3sm7d 11 ай бұрын
How is it in any way "insane"? You guys overexaggerate everything.
@deleted-something 11 ай бұрын
true
@jaywilliams9294 11 ай бұрын
Britian: Nah don't want it "France wants it" Britain: *NO ITS MINE*
@sarpyasar5893 11 ай бұрын
“France can’t have nice thinks” Every british foreign minister ever
@MartinCraig-zt2sv 11 ай бұрын
And that's pretty much the story of New Zealand the the Treaty of Waitangi 1840
@yayhandles 11 ай бұрын
Australia specifically, or just in general?
@Nibilim 11 ай бұрын
Not you. NEVER you!
@gregynutbutter 3 ай бұрын
@MartinCraig-zt2sv how so? I always thought it was because they couldn't stop the maoris from attacking them in the north and they couldn't fight them very well in the forests but idk I did get told that from a Maori could be a case of biased storytelling haha
@ronlucock3702 11 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: when the Japanese started attacking the north of Australia in WWII, it was decided that should an invasion force actually land on our northern shores and try to make their way inland towards the major population centres on the east coast, Australian forces wouldn't bother fighting back. They would simply wait for the enemy to die in the deserts before ever making it that far on land. That's how big, & harsh, the Australian interior is.
@dianafarmer5445 11 ай бұрын
Also the Japanese were 'allowed' to invade, because Hitler didn't want Australia, he only liked Tasmania, otherwise we'd be speaking German.
@zimriel 11 ай бұрын
unsure how wonderful that strategery would have worked. japan was a naval power and would likely have fortified the northern coast, using them as bases to raid the major southeastern cities. japan would ignore perth and the west, except to bomb the crap out of the rails.
@ronlucock3702 11 ай бұрын
@@zimriel You know what, my comment above was based on something I learned in either late Primary School or early high school. I even remember seeing maps of Aust with big red lines across the continent. No further research was made before I offerred my comment. Having now researched it ("The Brisbane Line"), I've come to learn that it was all just political bullshit, missunderstanding of policy by the politicions of the day & manipulation / scare mongering of the Aust people for political gain. Clearly, nothing has changed in politics in 80 years, but I apologise for calling it "fact" or referring to it as actual policy.
@zimriel 10 ай бұрын
"Gapho replied: "zimriel The straits between PNG and AUS wouldn't be crossable by carriers and destroyers, and the islands were already fortified before the bombing of Darwin." I assumed the Torres would be fortified. I also assumed they wouldn't be fortified *very well*. Singapore showed how rotten WW2-era Britain's fortification schemes could get. And Japan's shallow-water game was pretty good, as shown in the Philippines. It may be the Aussies were more-motivated than the Filipinos to defend their own (although the Filipinos proved valiant resistance fighters after-the-fact).
@Andrew-gn9qp 10 ай бұрын
@@zimrielThe Philippines was an American colony, Filipinos were US nationals, and therefore the Philippines had no standing army. The US military in the Philippines was ill prepared, and Hawaii had been bombed which means no reinforcements. Douglas McArthur fled Manila to Australia. Filipinos had no choice but to surrender. This was an embarassment to the USA, and Filipinos as US nationals made them targets to the Japanese massacres.
@Shazza2024 11 ай бұрын
Actually maps of Australia were not completed until the epic journeys of Matthew Flinders time. His maps were so good they were used into the 20th century in many places. Foreigners(non brittish) did not map the Australian coastline except in sections and they guessed the rest, even joining Australia to New Guinea and other countries on various maps. The coastline is so large it took Flinders decades to complete his task(albeit interrupted) in many cases sailing the coast in a small boat for thousands of kms(nautical miles i guess?🤔). Remember the Australian coastline is 34,000 kms. One of the great navigators of history
@Shazza2024 11 ай бұрын
@@jasonbennett7002 mathew flinders was the first person to navigate the coast inshore. And Baudin did not map all of Australia. Im not sure he even sailed the whole coast did he?
@maxhall2086 Ай бұрын
They found his grave a few years ago when digging up an old cemetery to lay a new rail line. He was reinterred last summer in his home village.
@EthanHalls-yi8wc 4 күн бұрын
Polynesians are actually the greatest navigators the only reason y’all made it down here was pure luck and some Polynesian way finders helping your race fine pacific islands like New Zealand LMFAO GTFO
@matei8master8 11 ай бұрын
As a Romanian, I'm heartbroken by our lack of Australian empire.
@jameslawrie3807 11 ай бұрын
I think the people of Romania should immediately come here and assert their claim, I'd back them for their cuisine alone.
@matei8master8 11 ай бұрын
@@jameslawrie3807 Aw, mate, wherever in Australia you are, bless you. That warmed me to my heart ❤️
@andrewnewton2246 11 ай бұрын
To be fair we have thousands of bats in Australia.
@hazchemel 11 ай бұрын
Aaah ... we need a township called ... South Bucharest? ... Trans-Transylvania? 😊
@hazchemel 11 ай бұрын
@@andrewnewton2246you mean, in Australescu?
@TheTrex9000 11 ай бұрын
Is nobody gonna talk about how he managed to fit Prussia's borders within Australia while simultaneously making it look nice?
@Merennulli 11 ай бұрын
No, we all agreed not to talk about it at the meeting you missed earlier.
@TheTrex9000 11 ай бұрын
@@Merennulli Oh, I see.
@sonvan6714 11 ай бұрын
ok
@aariyanmahmud301 11 ай бұрын
@@Merennulli lol i have never heard that one before nice
@JackRabbitSlim 11 ай бұрын
@@Merennulli That was a pretty sweet meeting, one of those 'had to be there' kinda moments. Excellent pastries too. Sure glad I didn't miss out on it, boy would I have felt like a loser.
@smurftums 11 ай бұрын
Apparently New Zealand missed out on being a French colony by a matter of weeks. That would make an interesting video. :)
@zimriel 11 ай бұрын
... and then France surrenders to the Maori and, today, Paris, Nice, and Marseilles speak Polynesian dialect instead of Arabic
@MalakaiTekira-di6gs 28 күн бұрын
@@zimriel Churr monsieur
@MSKofAlexandria 20 күн бұрын
@@zimriel The Great Maori Empire
@nickwaz98 11 ай бұрын
i appreciate that your videos aren't needlessly long, and always are straight to the point without repeating information constantly to hit an arbitrary length. hard to find nowadays on youtube, much appreciated - good work
@rad4924 11 ай бұрын
If you've ever been to Australia then you'll already know why there was never a scramble for it.
@Toonrick12 11 ай бұрын
Pretty much that if it isn't shoreline, it's dry as hell.
@brandonlyon730 11 ай бұрын
And yet the Great Powers eventually scrambled for the Sahara.
@andysorensen1737 11 ай бұрын
Not to mention all the animals out to get you.
@highgrounder5238 11 ай бұрын
I mean, the french scrambled over sahara, the outback in comparison sounds positively pleasant
@scholaroftheworldalternatehist 11 ай бұрын
@@highgrounder5238 Probably since they already had interests in Algeria. Australia was a world away and France lacked naval power to go there
@DIY_Miracle 11 ай бұрын
It is worth noting that there is actually a lot of highly valuable mineral resources in Australia but serious prospecting didn't really occur until the British had already staked quite a strong claim. Melbourne was at one point the second richest city in the empire for a number of decades due to the immense amount of gold pouring out of north west Victoria. Cash crops might have made America, fur made Canada, spices made Indonesia, oil made Saudi Arabia, but gold made Australia.
@thejohnbeck 11 ай бұрын
The other thing that makes America is the crazy good river network, which offers cheap transport
@seaofghosts 11 ай бұрын
And sheep.
@victorsamsung2921 11 ай бұрын
Cattle and sheep made Australia too, due to the flat, drier and grassy interior of the continent. Which allowed for a large number of farms to be built and settle.
@DIY_Miracle 11 ай бұрын
@@victorsamsung2921 Obviously livestock mattered. We do not live in a world where a region can only produce one resource
@grondhero 11 ай бұрын
@@DIY_Miracle Mmm, _lovestock._
@onodera3964 11 ай бұрын
Anyone notice the single Australia-New Guinea landmass on the Dutch map? Turns out everyone ignored Luís Vaz de Torres, who sailed between them in 1606, for 150 years, while the Dutch sailed across the Torres strait without even noticing it was one.
@zimriel 11 ай бұрын
It turns out that Australia and New Guinea share similar birdlife and plantlife. "Wallace Line". If you went to one cape and saw the same sort of thing as you saw on another cape, it was reasonable to assume they're the same landmass. And yeah they used to be the same continent
@VanillaMacaron551 9 ай бұрын
It's a patchwork of islands. Biologists note that it's only a matter of time before a bat brings a virus across from Asia, by island hopping across Torres Strait. One of these could be Nipah Virus.
@johnkern1878 11 ай бұрын
La Perouse landed in botany Bay 6 days after the first fleet in 1788. Then sailed to the New Caledonia area and promptly got killed. The French did not find out for 20-30 years what was here. By then it was too late.
@iliketea9122 11 ай бұрын
If people back then knew just how resource-rich Australia was there absolutely would have been a scramble for it. Having 17% of the worlds gold and 30% of the worlds iron alone would have made it worth it.
@ninjafruitchilled 11 ай бұрын
We got a lot of Uranium too, though I guess it was just another weird rock to folk back then
@peaceraybob 11 ай бұрын
The problem then, as now, is how remote and difficult to extract most of those resources are.
@jgdooley2003 11 ай бұрын
The one thing that amazes me is how Kerry Packer, the Australian mining millionaire used metal detecting technology, magnetic anomoly detection, from WW2 originally used to detect submarines to detect literal mountains of Iron ore in Australia. Another is that the worlds heaviest and longest trains are used to ship endless quantities of coal to seaports on the east coast for transhipment to Far East nations.
@mikkelrw1606 11 ай бұрын
Don't they also have some of the most high quality coal, which made Chinas recent sanctions backfire?
@nepnep1453 11 ай бұрын
@@mikkelrw1606yes
@megakillerx 11 ай бұрын
Another fun fact is that Sweden under Gustav III were heavily interested in building colonies in India (built a factory a few miles south of Pondicherry before it got raided) and most importantly, Australia. The king hired a Dutch-English explorer William Bolts to survey and settle near modern day Perth. However, the king and Sweden overall got struck with a sudden case of payback against Russia and the colonial venture got immediately cancelled.
@AaronOfMpls 11 ай бұрын
Starting around 1638, Sweden had a colony on the Delaware River too, in North America. But they lost this New Sweden to the Dutch in 1655, who then lost it -- along with the rest of New Netherland -- to England in 1664. The Dutch captured both areas back in 1673, but lost them to England again in 1674. In the years after, the former New Sweden was split off from New York (former New Netherlands) and partitioned between the colonies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. ...Which all became part of the newly-independent US from 1776/1783.
@bakrahabibi5471 11 ай бұрын
Its funny how the Mughal empire was India's last real chance of staying independent, as well as a great power. But I guess Indians never really desired unity unless its on their terms.
@navneetnair3314 11 ай бұрын
To be fair, the Maratha Empire before 1763 seemed like a good option too, but after said date it more less devolved into a confederacy of smaller states.
@bakrahabibi5471 11 ай бұрын
Marathas were never a good option. They were state based purely on raiding. Plus, it was a confederacy in which no one person had the real say in things. Every tribe of the confederacy wanted to dominate the state and it eventually fell to infighting. The Mughal empire on the otherhand, had an absolute monarch who was synonymous with the state itself. If only the later emperors were as competant as Aurangzeb or Akbar.
@yarumillai6180 11 ай бұрын
@@bakrahabibi5471 Probably becuase the mughals were incompetent ?. I think anyone, not just indians would desire a capable ruler like Shivaji who actually reformed instead of inbred monarchs who wanted to impose islam because "muh troo relijin"
@M1RR06N44 11 ай бұрын
0:01 that first sign explains it all
@KeanuRigley 11 ай бұрын
Many think that Australia was colonised by Britain but it was really James Bissinette that did all the hard work
@TimeBucks 11 ай бұрын
I think it worked out pretty well.
@JahangirAlam-cs3xp 11 ай бұрын
Vary vary nice
@shihabuddin6020 11 ай бұрын
Good
@taposhkumarmondal6914 11 ай бұрын
Great
@sabzali6277 11 ай бұрын
👍
@robinsononate87 11 ай бұрын
Great
@Gamers.195 11 ай бұрын
Australia was finally remembered by someone
@SamAronow 11 ай бұрын
And New Zealand remains ignored.
@andrewhopkins886 11 ай бұрын
meanwhile in New Zealand:
@bababababababa6124 11 ай бұрын
@@andrewhopkins886 tf is a New Zealand stop making stuff up
@edwinhuang9244 11 ай бұрын
@@bababababababa6124 I think it's this thing beyond Earth, said to be inhabited by mysterious beings who sees the earth in a 2D form.
@bababababababa6124 11 ай бұрын
@@edwinhuang9244 no way that’s actually real surely no one believes that
@what_theactual1984 4 ай бұрын
2:09 I love how Germany just rises out of the sea
@scouseaussie1638 11 ай бұрын
Best country in the world, leaving the UK was the best thing I ever did.Great weather and great people.🇦🇺
@j.r5159 11 ай бұрын
It’s not in the top 50
@marcdevries1356 11 ай бұрын
Its too freaking hot there, dangerous for your health skin cancer rates Rank Country 1 Australia
@morgand93 11 ай бұрын
Highest average wealth per capita, extremely low crime amongst a lot of other things. Easily top 3 is pretty much every relevant metric.
@jjkanal640 11 ай бұрын
@@j.r5159it’s probably top 20
@j.r5159 11 ай бұрын
@@jjkanal640 it sux
@Nikkidafox 11 ай бұрын
There's just not a whole lot in Australia. It's mainly just mineral resources which were also usually abundant in Africa as well. And with 99% of it being completely hostile to human life, there wasn't a lot of competition for it. Also I love how the Dutch were offered Western Australia. You know, the part (outside of Perth) that's almost completely uninhabited.
@tadcastertory1087 11 ай бұрын
Hey, we British are generous. If it looks horrible, let someone else have it!
@undrscrh3194 11 ай бұрын
Mate, it's not 99% inhabitable, it's closer to 79% from what I've experienced living there all my life
@draphotube4315 11 ай бұрын
Why didnt we ever keep it or get it lie wtf
@draphotube4315 11 ай бұрын
@@tadcastertory1087 the south west Lion Cape has a good climate and fertile soils
@joshuah5556 11 ай бұрын
God bless the kalbari reef for keeping the Dutch out
@etherospike3936 11 ай бұрын
0:16 As a Romanian , I was really proud that the western part of Australia has been attributed to us !
@Ghreinos 11 ай бұрын
Plot twist, it was the flag from chad.
@jasonhaven7170 11 ай бұрын
Why? Are you proud to be a coloniser?
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 11 ай бұрын
@@jasonhaven7170 Romania never colonised anyone. The comment was intended to be humourous.
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 11 ай бұрын
I hate to say that there's not much in that portion of Australia. Mostly iron, some gold, some crocs, and a lot of people on meth. That's about it.
@McPruden 11 ай бұрын
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Bunses you did... The dacians... And the vampires.
@lachlanmcvey7885 11 ай бұрын
I am Australian and have lived in the outback (80% of Australia) for years. It is desolate as hell. Even the east coast which is now mainly nice farmland was once eucalyptus bush and scrub land which had to be cleared. Sydney which was one of the nicer areas was on the verge of collapse as a colony before aborigines led Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson over the blue mountains to suitable grazing land. The Aborigines truly are an amazing race of people to have survived here. The Polynesian expansion and asian empires didn’t even attempt invasion or settlement because they would have died of starvation. There is evidence of Asian ships arriving (aboriginal cave paintings) but none stuck around. Even now 95% of Australians live in 10% of the country (mostly on the coast). You can drive for days without seeing a house in parts of the country even today. The Sahara contained valuable trade routes linking the recourses of sub Sahara to North Africa and Europe that the French and Britain wanted to control. The desserts in Australia link nowhere with nowhere. The minerals in Australia also weren’t really found until modern geology and nobody initially knew gold (for the gold rush) was present because the Aborigines didn’t care about it. They only stumbled onto it in rural Victoria. In short Europeans new Australia existed and so did Asian empires and likely also the Polynesians but none had the knowledge to be able to survive here like the Australian aborigines. It is also a long way by sea from anywhere so supporting a colony a long way from anywhere by sea is difficult. In short there was no competition early on because nobody could make a go of it except the Aborigines.
@glenemma1 11 ай бұрын
Well done - you summed it up pretty well.
@BingoBongo-or5ni 11 ай бұрын
The convicts made a go of it cause there was no where else for them to go
@dianafarmer5445 11 ай бұрын
I disagree only the Aboriginals were the only ones to be able to survive here. I'm sure if the American Indians had been the ones to come here they would've survived, same with the Mongolians and other Indigenous Tribes.
@BingoBongo-or5ni 11 ай бұрын
@@dianafarmer5445 it was a joke but a bit dry for you just like this country, as in all places in the world alot of deaths occur in order to gain the knowledge to live in such extreme condition. But what you probably don't realise based on your statement, there was a group of people here before the aboriginals, and the aboriginals wiped them out.
@dianafarmer5445 11 ай бұрын
@@BingoBongo-or5ni Ok. Yes I did know that. There is also evidence the Eygptians came here 10,000 years ago too. They were mining here.
@blake9358 11 ай бұрын
The Portuguese pre date the Netherlands, the earliest charted maps of the Australian coastline were done by the Portuguese.
@JohnnyRose775 11 ай бұрын
I love the description of the Revolutionary War as 'an ongoing event of freedom'
@maasro 11 ай бұрын
Meh, more like a difference in opinion on taxation.
@zjkbrewer 11 ай бұрын
That sounds like a great band name
@randomintrovertedspider7510 11 ай бұрын
@@maasro Well, we did want our right as British citizens to be represented to be respected, and they didn't, so I suppose it could be called that.
@Dave_Sisson 11 ай бұрын
It depends how you describe it. I call it an illegal mutiny against their rightful king, but that's just my view.
@Teknanam 11 ай бұрын
@@Dave_Sisson There is a such thing as a legal mutiny?
@wilbertting9211 11 ай бұрын
It's amazing how I didn't think of this topic, but the moment I realized "No empire rushed for Australia" I immediately rushed to see the video. Good job History Matters.
@tramnguyenduy954 11 ай бұрын
ok
@elrey8876 11 ай бұрын
*AS FAR* as I can tell, Australia is the only single-nation continent in recorded history. And I predict it won't remain that way. Climate change is starting to affect resource and land availability. Similarly, populations in Asia are putting increasing pressure on their resources. Antarctica is gradually being colonized by China and other nations, even including Russia - which will mean an expansion of naval and commercial seafaring around our southern perimeter. China is also expanding into the Pacific and pushing into Australia's traditional area of influence. *I'D SAY* within 100-200 years someone will annex the northwest or west of Australia with the intention of claiming mineral resources, fishing rights, habitable land, and transforming arid areas into fertile territory for food production.
@babycakelings 11 ай бұрын
@@elrey8876honestly, I really doubt that. Reason being is America is already building up the military in Australia to prepare exactly for this to potentially happen. We have strong allyship with the British and Americans, they wouldn’t let another country take us just out of pride. Add in how little land is actually liveable here and global warming destroying a lot of it, it’s not worth it for any country to attempt it. At least not unless something big changes here.
@masenko4519 10 ай бұрын
@@elrey8876Western Australia ready have a history of trying to annex themselves from the mainland lol
@FutureMan420Blazer 9 ай бұрын
In my EU4 game, having just won the protestant league as Denmark, i got a popup saying "Portuguese Australian Colonial nation formed" or something like that. It was 1604 lolz.
@brunoduarte8817 11 ай бұрын
Actually it is most likely that the portuguese got to Australia first. Recently new arqueological evidence backs it up. But then again, the northern shores of Australia didn't look very profitable by comparison to India, Indonesia and the likes (not that many people to convert as well).
@buddylove2073 11 ай бұрын
Even Lex Luthor asked to be given Australia when Zod took over.
@noluckyyy 11 ай бұрын
That Prussia in Australia at 2:15 is gold ngl
@engtilde 11 ай бұрын
Under Prussia
@sallmandar1027 2 ай бұрын
Except that Prussia is like 6 times bigger than what it actually is
@andysorensen1737 11 ай бұрын
“An ongoing event of freedom” 😂. This channel is great.
@johnnysteradactyl558 11 ай бұрын
That headline looks like the ultimate blue herring
@briancrowther3272 9 ай бұрын
Thankyou. I left the uk in 81 for sydney oz, still in sydney. Done loads of reading re oz since and aquiredva politics ba degree from a good oz uni. You little 3 mon presentation here answered a question I never really consudred and it is an important one in understanding oz etc. Thanyou so much.
@James-kv6kb 10 ай бұрын
Well the kids would certainly learn something from this . Would be great to see the adult version
@dangerousnoodle8779 11 ай бұрын
Europa Universalis players know that it was the Mamluks and Brittany that actually colonized Australia
@Briggie 11 ай бұрын
Ottomans always seem to like colonizing Australia in my playthroughs. Also they like swiping Taiwan from China.
@hachwarwickshire292 11 ай бұрын
Brittany .... is still the British ! The clue is in the name 😊
@cryptocsguy9282 11 ай бұрын
@@hachwarwickshire292 lmao , British as in Celtic peoples , the English are foreigners (Germanic )
@darylvanengelenburg5865 10 ай бұрын
For me always spain
@ArthurCSchaperMR 11 ай бұрын
Please please do a video on the following subjects: 1. Why did the People's Revolution of 1848 fail in the Germanies and Spain? 2. Why do people drive on different sides of the road in different countries?
@dragostocai973 11 ай бұрын
for #2 the answer is Napoleon
@-MarcelDavis- 11 ай бұрын
I second that!
@Xris10BUL 11 ай бұрын
I would also like to know why the ottomans didn’t participate in the napoleononic wars
@theshrubking9974 11 ай бұрын
@@Xris10BULthey did, when Napoleon invaded Egypt
@nonameuserua 11 ай бұрын
@@dragostocai973 probably the most convenient one-word answer, my thanks. It’s pretty hard to live in the world where everyone would answer “Britain” instead 😁 I would widen by telling “Napoleon and long-range wagon trains in North America”
@solrac41604 11 ай бұрын
Because the Emus already colonized it...
@Ggr1406 11 ай бұрын
Good video and good information
@dabi2k 11 ай бұрын
Romanian Australia would’ve been a superpower
@georgeamesfort3408 11 ай бұрын
Free sarmale for every dead emu
@mikloscsuvar6097 11 ай бұрын
What Romanian? Chadian! Chad was independent that time.
@Sig509 11 ай бұрын
or they would have sent all the Gypsies there, like the UK did with convicts
@joshuah5556 11 ай бұрын
Rosemary Poppa
@mojewjewjew4420 11 ай бұрын
@@mikloscsuvar6097chad wasnt even a country at the time.
@Meelis13 11 ай бұрын
Prussia overlapped on Australia is one of those joke reference details i love this channel for (aside from, well, it being nice informative channel about interesting history)
@tonyrobinson9046 9 ай бұрын
Great work.
@accountforcommenting 11 ай бұрын
I always wondered about this thanks for the info
@YourVintageStick 11 ай бұрын
Brit 1: Sir the French are showing interest in Australia again Brit 2: *sigh* Build another settlement
@stooge_mobile 11 ай бұрын
Insanely, Perth was founded before Melbourne and Adelaide were. This was before railways were used here (1829). There were no settlements for thousands of kilometres (as the crow flies, sydney is more than 3,000km away). It's a 4,100km sailing trip from Perth to Sydney. Prevailing westerly winds make the journey *relatively* quick from Perth to Sydney, but in the opposite direction it took forever to get back. It was far quicker to supply Perth from India than from Sydney. Perth had very little to do with the rest of Australia until steam transport was invented.
@willhooke 11 ай бұрын
Interesting thought that India supplies Perth more easily than Sydney does Thank you 👍🏻
@89Djm 11 ай бұрын
Albany was founded in 1826 as a military base prior to Perth & Fremantle.
@stooge_mobile 11 ай бұрын
@@89Djm That's dope, didn't know that, cheers.
@planetdisco4821 11 ай бұрын
Perth arguably still has little to do with the rest of Australia lol
@dantemadden1533 11 ай бұрын
@@planetdisco4821 thankfully, we don’t like them there westerners😂
@assininecomment1630 11 ай бұрын
0:25 - "...by the Dutch, who named it New Holland, _after Holland back home."_ I have always wondered about this. 😐 🤦🏼♂️
@darkbunglex 11 ай бұрын
As an Aussie this is a really good summary in under 3 mins 🎉
@wowyourereallyreadingthis 11 ай бұрын
Romanian Australia isn't real, it can't hurt you 0:16
@karlbaresic4091 11 ай бұрын
My great grandfather was one of those pesky krauts, a botanist working for the Kaiser in SA (South Australia during the 1880s. Although the east was settled by that point, much of SA was only claimed, and not settled. Even today, Australia is one of the least densily populated countries in the world, but it doesn't feel like it driving the M7 during peak hour.
@KL-un8sf 11 ай бұрын
It’s cos more than half of us live in 3 cities haha.
@duskpede5146 11 ай бұрын
australia is literally the second least dense country in the world
@legendofrobbo 11 ай бұрын
they spent too much on immigrating half the world here and not enough on upgrading our cities so they can actually hold that many people comfortably
@tessa2017 10 ай бұрын
Me too, our great great etc grandfathers may have known each other
@mark-wo2wj 10 ай бұрын
Australia is the one of the most urban countries in the world...irony hey.
@coolpank8638 2 ай бұрын
2:13 That's a weird sha... omg that's so clean
@markfarrell6103 11 ай бұрын
I'm 6 Generation Australian. The Portuguese discovered Australia . early Portuguese navigators were the first Europeans to sight Australia between 1521 and 1524, well before the arrival of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606 on board the Duyfken
@wildspirit3182 9 ай бұрын
Was looking for this comment. The first europeans to discover the land down under were the Portuguese, I'm surprised the British narrator didn't know that as it's a well known fact in Europe.
@anthony.3614 9 ай бұрын
@@wildspirit3182He also could have thrown in the fact that the dingo (an Asian dog-wolf hybrid) was left in Australia 7,000 years ago by Southeast Asian seafarers and coconut palms which are not native to Australia and require physical planting were found growing all along Australia's extreme northern coastlines. Southeast Asian seafarers (probably from Borneo) and possibly Polynesian seafarers visited Australia before Europeans without a doubt.
@wildspirit3182 9 ай бұрын
@@anthony.3614 Polynesians and asian nations definitely had contact thru trade with indigenous people down under, hence write I wrote "first" europeans. This is how the Portuguese navigators knew of its existence and possible routes for ships to safely sail. The dingo theory is neither here nor there for me, they are very much at home here. Many use it as an argument to cull numbers but 7,000 years makes anything intrinsically part to the ecosystem. Stating an organism as native or not discounts biological changes that have been happening since the dawn of time. Otherwise practically everything is foreign to where it is now. I have observed coconuts self-seeding and growing naturally on their own along tropical shorelines without human intervention. By design they float across oceans on tides and plant themselves on tropical beaches. Sure they grow on masse the closer to the equator but inland is where planting is done by humans.
@MrNixity 2 ай бұрын
This is very debated and not accepted as fact as the evidence isn’t strong enough.
@Swagbudy Ай бұрын
Not only found Portugal Australia first Portugal founded also found New Zealand first 😁
@itzadam9359 11 ай бұрын
Video idea as a loyal Patreon supporter: Why was Finland 🇫🇮 given autonomy in the Russian Empire?
@nonameuserua 11 ай бұрын
Would be great, + UPD sheesh you really do ask this under every video? 🙄
@NovikNikolovic 11 ай бұрын
You spam this every video
@lucask4377 11 ай бұрын
Bro just search it up yourself if you care so much. You ask this every time.
@alexjv1370 11 ай бұрын
Finland and some of the Baltic regions were treated pretty well such as self governing cities. It was actually a common opinion at the time that Russia had freed the Baltics and Finland from Swedish imperialism so people weren’t in favor of ruling over them on bad terms which is why elites and traditional laws were very well integrated/ allowed. You could also consider that Russia wanted good relations and to keep them around to sort of treat Finland as a buffer state between them and Sweden. Similar to what China does with North Korea and keeping away SK and Japan. Things began to really fall apart with Polish uprising which is unfortunate since the Russian Empire didn’t even want the entirety of Poland anyways. They wanted mainly territories with cultural/language similarities.
@ajtheaggravated6191 11 ай бұрын
Bet he's not even a patreon supporter
@MatthewDoel32 11 ай бұрын
Once again, History Matters answers a question I’d never even thought to ask, and I love this channel for always posing and answering interesting questions.
@Wooargh 11 ай бұрын
Isn't Google just the greatest company ever? They give us our history, our search engine, our videos, our email, our browser, our education, our maps, our operating systems, and it's all 100% free. And now that they control the Internet they even cancel, censor, and demonetize anyone who goes against current political and social trends. We love you Google. Thank you for keeping us safe.
@Rusty_Gold85 9 ай бұрын
type Australia into wikipedia and get the rest of the facts
@cb2291 11 ай бұрын
Very enlightening
@billstewartxxx 11 ай бұрын
good job!
@skiphouston7392 11 ай бұрын
Just one small comment. At the 1:53 mark you show the ship going along the south coast of the country and flags being planted at Adelaide, Melbourne, Tasmania. But after Sydney and Parramatta, the next settlement was in Tasmania and then after that, Queensland, followed shortly after by Albany on the south coast of Western Australia and then Perth a couple of years later, then known as the Swan River Colony. What is now South Australia was one of the last parts of the country to be settled. So I know you probably did it for simplicity sake, but it makes the colonisation look different to how it actually played out.
@ACDZ123 9 ай бұрын
Yeah i noticed that he left out Perth which is older than Melbourne and Adelaide
@glasshousemtns 9 ай бұрын
And why when they choose Queensland did they choose the Town of 1770 to land yet to this day it is a sleepy seaside twin town. And when Cook landed, where did Banks go with his men and where are those records of the sweetest sweet bread in the world! And the baker’s family remnants are where? No where to be seen. Everything the convicts built was already here. A forgotten (erased) civilisation.
@Tamaresque 9 ай бұрын
And, bonus for S.A. it's the only state not first settled by convicts.
@chriskostopoulos8142 9 ай бұрын
@@Tamaresque Neither was western Australia nor victoria I believe.
@antlover5396 8 ай бұрын
@@chriskostopoulos8142 the swan river colony was established 1829 but didnt receive convicts until 1842. so we didnt start as a penal colony but did eventually take in prisoners. south australia *never* received prisoners
@RoseAbrams 11 ай бұрын
For a future video, maybe you should explore the "convict" angle of this a bit more. My understanding is that this crowd didn't consist of robbers and murderers as one might suspect, but rather of petty thieves and government critics and just generally poor people.
@moritamikamikara3879 11 ай бұрын
Yeah, a lot of the 18th century was pretty hard on England so you had a lot of petty theft, mostly of bread or occasionally of animals, just to keep people fed. The government didn't really like this because obviously, and so rather than doing things to try to make all the theft unnecessary, they just dumped all involved in Australia, which... I guess sorta worked out in the end.
@CountScarlioni 11 ай бұрын
Laws were harsh in Britain at the time of early colonisation (earning the name "The Bloody Code") but then they were harsh everywhere in the world. Nobody today would ever want to live under the legal framework of that world! The Georgian British just _really_ didn't like prisons. They thought the concept of lengthy incarceration was inhumane and brutal - and they had a point, 18th century prisons everywhere where horrible places. Cold, damp, rat infested flea pits that made people sick or insane. For serious crimes, execution was seen as a mercy and for lesser crimes, Transportation was seen as doing convicts a favour, sparing them the horrors of prison life. Transportation was not normally forever. There'd be a term of years that would have to be spent in the colony, but at the end of that time they could travel back home if they so wished (and could stump the money to afford the ticket). Some did indeed return at the end of their sentence but many did just build whole new lives in their fated destinations. The system of transportation withered away as the penal and justice system of the UK modernised in the Victorian period. By which time many were setting sail for those distant colonies willingly. I guess it made little sense to send someone somewhere for free as a punishment when others were selling their whole livelihoods to make the same journey! I don't know when Transportation stopped entirely but by the 1850s it was becoming a very rare sentence.
@MrJHDK 11 ай бұрын
Fields of Athenry 🎵 🎶
@AndoCommando1000 11 ай бұрын
You are correct. The international joke is that Australia was a land of English criminals. But all the murderers and rapists (in England) were hanged. But Britain wasn't in the habit of hanging people for stealing loaves of bread to feed their family, nor things like minor acts of fraud or stealing sheep or getting into an altercation with someone and getting caught. So yes, generally starving people at a time when there was zero welfare - even rich people who were down on their luck were often incarcerated - many of them educated tradespeople. So these are the sorts of people who were shipped off to Australia. Not heinous criminals. Among them, MANY Irish people (catholics) who were a disparaged minority in extremely protestant England and therefore were overrepresented in prisons. ALSO - don't forget, to sail a whole bunch of prisoners there, you ALSO need naval officers (ie NOT prisoners but actual British officers with naval commissions), skilled sailors and shipmen, armed soldiers, various architects and builders, physicians, engineers and their wives and families. Many of the convicts themselves were also quite educated but just, for whatever historical reason, incarcerated.
@TerminatorHIX 11 ай бұрын
Chartists were among the transported too. Some of their ideas found traction in the Australian colonies, though; the secret ballot was also known as the Australian ballot.
@grafito4438 11 ай бұрын
this is how fast all informative videos should be - over in three minutes so I can get back to what I was doing.
@comicsanslover 10 ай бұрын
we do this in history EVERY YEAR and i still watched this video
@wb4exeya 11 ай бұрын
0:10 It was actually Portugal in 1521/1524.
@miguelsilva2610 11 ай бұрын
Spot on :)
@McPruden 11 ай бұрын
From Timor they were aware of bird migrations south, but exploration was considered secret.
@IdiotToonz 11 ай бұрын
I Salute Romanian Australia 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
@georgeamesfort3408 11 ай бұрын
Glory to Australia Românească
@Nikki-tx6kh 11 ай бұрын
Can the Moldovans have a small space for musical entertainment? Your entries are kinda good, but somehow, the Moldovans are better.
@donpollo3154 11 ай бұрын
@@Nikki-tx6kh the idea of Moldovans with didgeridoos scares me
@nonameuserua 11 ай бұрын
@@donpollo3154 fun fact: carpathians have their own didgeridoos, look up *trembita/trâmbiță*
@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler 11 ай бұрын
@@Nikki-tx6khhow about, no?
@KyloBarley 2 ай бұрын
I love how most of this guys videos can be answered with “because Britain”
@HimadriRoy-ns5bv 11 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@timallardyce1216 11 ай бұрын
Botany Bay was the initially selected site for what is now Sydney due to positive reports on it from Captain Cook, HOWEVER the new arrivals found Botany Bay unsatisfactory and moved north to what is now known as Sydney Harbour. Americans commonly make this mistake in thinking that Botany Bay was the site of the first European settlement in Australia, most notably in the movie Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
@tepidtuna7450 11 ай бұрын
Botany Bay was the first site. It failed, THEN they moved to Sydney Harbour. 🤗
@sgu02nsc66 11 ай бұрын
Botany Bay? Botany Bay?! Oh no!!
@spaceforgrace3312 11 ай бұрын
@@tepidtuna7450 Watson's Bay I believe. Don't blame them, it's lovely.
@ironfist7789 10 ай бұрын
@sgu02nsc66 Well they sent them there with just the contents of a few cargo containers. Noone bothered to check on them.
@sgu02nsc66 10 ай бұрын
@@ironfist7789 captain Kirk never bothered to check on their progress!
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 11 ай бұрын
1:43 This border still partially exists today as the Queensland - Northern Territory border.
@Eyclonus 11 ай бұрын
Something I think that needed more emphasis is that nearly all the European powers landed on the desolate west coast, the brits chanced on the fertile east coast. This greatly changed how Britain valued the continent compared to the Dutch and French.
@VanillaMacaron551 9 ай бұрын
They didn't "chance on" the east coast. Thank SCIENCE! They wanted to observe the "Transit of Venus" (a one-in-a-century astronomical event) in 1770 from the South Pacific. So once they had done that, they headed west to navigate the east coast of New Holland.
@kiwitrainguy 4 ай бұрын
After observing the transit of Venus in Tahiti Cook was instructed to proceed to latitude 40 degrees South and to sail West along it in order to locate the Great Southern Continent that was thought to exist in The Southern Hemisphere to balance out the land masses of Europe and Asia. He first found New Zealand and then Australia.@@VanillaMacaron551
@user-zc3kf3lj3e 10 ай бұрын
I dig up gold out of my creek every time it floods . I love it
@alexjv1370 11 ай бұрын
Imagine wanting to willingly deal with an animal that is the embodiment of “Do you even lift bro?”
@peterdisabella2156 11 ай бұрын
Koalas are scary
@john2g1 11 ай бұрын
Every day is leg day bro... I only box for the leg cardio.
@okwiumeokolo1481 11 ай бұрын
This is why I love your channel. I've been interested in history for a decade and you ask interesting questions that I've never considered
@twitters98 11 ай бұрын
Woohoo more videos about this place please
@mareelsreeled 11 ай бұрын
Nice content.
@clintonbreeden6970 11 ай бұрын
Because James Bisonette personally purchased it from the natives, then gave it to Britain as a present.
@john2g1 11 ай бұрын
Too bleak to be funny... Unless you know nothing about the history of Australia I guess.
@IlikeMilfs2003 11 ай бұрын
Nah it's funny
@john2g1 11 ай бұрын
@@IlikeMilfs2003 Proving ignorance is bliss?
@eleum1400 11 ай бұрын
@@john2g1 na but he right tho, it's pretty funny
@remoosecode7558 11 ай бұрын
@@john2g1 Calm down emily.
@seanreed3089 11 ай бұрын
A moment of silence for all the people arriving in Australia without knowing how absolutely bonkers the wildlife was. Even the plants were racking up kill streaks.
@stephe1506 11 ай бұрын
There were, in fact, many many Indigenous people here to resist. Enough to have over 600 language groups iirc, let alone distinct local dialects. But the British explorers got around this by initially calling the land Terra Nullius, empty land, when trying to gain the Crowns support for a colony by downplaying how occupied the land already was
@ayianaarthur2551 9 ай бұрын
It was empty land. Nothing was built on it and there was no one who claimed ownership of the land as aboriginal culture does not own land.
@lyndabignell9660 9 ай бұрын
It was Matthew Flinders who returned to the UK after being incarcerated by the French on the island of Mauritius, who suggested to the British government that this new land be named Australia. Baudin had problems with the French government and actually secretly employed some artists and botanists as crew as he was interested in the natural world. The results of this were amazing illustrations and artefacts that went around Australia a few years ago, the exhibition being hosted in various states by maritime museums.
@VanillaMacaron551 9 ай бұрын
@@ayianaarthur2551 The High Court disagrees with you, since 1992.
@ayianaarthur2551 9 ай бұрын
@@VanillaMacaron551 The high court are a bunch of traitors who failed in protecting our sovereignty over our land. Thanks to all the traitors , the future of Australia is division and war.
@Rusty_Gold85 9 ай бұрын
If Baudin actually survived after seeing Australia , and got back to see Napoleon things could've been different . Also 2 french ships landed in Port Jackson Bay a few days after the First Fleet had started camping but they disappeared in a storm heading home 1788 and were only re discovered in 2018. The Mutiny on the Bounty story had a very close encounter when the Royal Navy was sent to find the mutineers and missed their wreckage by weeks or ignored them
@VanillaMacaron551 9 ай бұрын
Some French sailors "stayed with" - can't think of how else to put it - with Tasmanians for about 6 months in the 1770s. An account I read said they both adopted some culinary practises of the other.
@stevendouglas6593 11 ай бұрын
As an Australian, I think it worked out pretty well.
@glenchapman3899 11 ай бұрын
Yeah the British get a lots of flack. But compared to some countries in the game we did get it pretty good
@TDB2509 11 ай бұрын
Um, the slaughtering and oppression of the Aboriginals?
@robtoe10 11 ай бұрын
As a Brit, I concur - it's good that there's people in the world with a similar sense of humour to us Brits :)
@glenchapman3899 11 ай бұрын
@@robtoe10 and also that we can laugh at ourselves as much as we laugh at each other
@alpiekaar 11 ай бұрын
not for the abbos
@d0rryx274 11 ай бұрын
I always love how he talks about topics that most people had no idea even happen. Keep up the amazing work!
@TheSilverCanine_R3D-H 11 ай бұрын
Fellow protogen
@d0rryx274 11 ай бұрын
@@TheSilverCanine_R3D-H goober >:3
@fuglbird 11 ай бұрын
Nothing happened. That's the whole point.
@johnsharpe6411 10 ай бұрын
It would be interesting to know about the British encounters with the Australian salt water crocodile and the stories surrounding them. It's kind of like the 18th century meets the Cretaceous period. Sure it made for great fireside stories when they got back home, assuming they made it home.
@sturmtheguitarist 11 ай бұрын
I’m from Perth and I would prefer if the Dutch colonised what became Western Australia first rather than the British, much like the Cape Colony in South Africa - and I don’t have any Dutch blood whatsoever (I am a sixth generation Australian of Anglo-Celtic extraction)!
@pabcu2507 11 ай бұрын
Because no one wanted to mess with the emus
@joz6683 11 ай бұрын
Another great video. I am amazed how good these mini documentaries are informative and entertaining. Please keep up the good work.
@belloshukurat6037 11 ай бұрын
That's very nice
@FighteroftheNightman 9 ай бұрын
This was so interesting even the 2nd time
@mrgopnik5964 11 ай бұрын
I swear, imperial German colonial history can be summarized in two words “too late”
@marlonmoncrieffe0728 11 ай бұрын
Yeah, both Germany and, while I am at it, Italy, unified as late as 1871; that's not even two centuries ago! P.S. After the Napoleonic Wars, I think Prussia should have started a campaign, not unlike China's Age of the Warring States, where they focused on unifying all the German states whether through conquest or marriage; whichever was most convenient.
@DomWeasel 11 ай бұрын
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 'here they focused on unifying all the German states' They did. That was the entire bedrock of politics in the German states throughout the 19th century with the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 being the deciding factor in which of the two most powerful German nations would rule over the rest.
@andrewnewton2246 11 ай бұрын
To be fair, Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck fought a pretty courageous war in East Africa during the First World War, even surrendering after the armistice and once allied with the bees to to defeat Entente forces (the Battle of the Bees).
@cryptocsguy9282 11 ай бұрын
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Prussia did have a war with Austria Hungary over the German lands which is why it was only under Hitler in 1938 that Austria and Germany united , dunno about the German speaking portions of Switzerland
@Kevinlikescountrys 11 ай бұрын
Yet another great video from this channel I love it!
@VanillaMacaron551 9 ай бұрын
I read an account of a French person visiting early Sydney Town. Lots of interesting observations, visiting Manly etc, and noticing "the curious English habit of flogging".
@andyblyth923 11 ай бұрын
Wow that's what I call a history lesson if only my teachers had tried it this way
@cooper7240 11 ай бұрын
Best animated history channel ever.
@idjles 11 ай бұрын
At 0:50 you have a "mapped" coast on The Great Australian Bight and South Australia being mapped in "late 18th Century." This coastline was first mapped in 1802 by Matthew Flinders.
@Dave_Sisson 11 ай бұрын
Only three years out.
@lowmandave 11 ай бұрын
Words About Books podcast really got their money's worth in this one!
@alparslankorkmaz2964 11 ай бұрын
nice video
@ekesandras1481 11 ай бұрын
Both the Dutch and the Portuguese were just around the corner on the island of Timor, but the Australian coast on the North of the continent didn't look very inviting, the region is still very scarcely populated until today. So they concentrated on their spice business with the tropical island North of Australia and never explored the much more inviting Southern and Southeastern coast.
@ffarkasm 11 ай бұрын
2:07 Just as ever.
@dancummane3668 9 ай бұрын
I’ve always wanted to know why. My next history dive???? Colonial Era! 🎊 thanks guys
@rekhakaushik4292 11 ай бұрын
Nice video
@WideJaxamilious 11 ай бұрын
Genuinely my favourite KZfaq channel
@scott2452 11 ай бұрын
A good summary…may have been worth mentioning that the reason Hobart was chosen as the 2nd place to set up a colony was due to finding out it was actually an island and not subject to the original claim…something that probably would have been seized upon by France after the Baudin expedition
@duskpede5146 11 ай бұрын
something i don't get about early australian colonisation is where tf did this idea that you can claim entire islands if you just find it first come from? i've never seen anyone talk about that in any other context, where they'res a lot of islands that got partitioned in history
@zimriel 11 ай бұрын
@@duskpede5146 St Martin is the most bonkers example. The French and the Dutch split 84 sq km between them. WHY
@matthewrouge 11 ай бұрын
Nice!
@poojagaur41 11 ай бұрын
It's amazing
@jarnodatema 11 ай бұрын
As a Dutchman I wish there were more parts of the world that spoke Dutch
@r8rgtrs 11 ай бұрын
As a Russian who has learned some Dutch, ik vind dat geen mooie idee. Engels is het meest internationale taal, dat zou genoeg zijn voor germaanse taalen. However, if the implication is that there should be a different demographic and/or migration policies in the Netherlands and Belgium, then sure, if that's in those countries' best interest.
@jasonhaven7170 11 ай бұрын
Considering the genocide and slavery perpetrated by the Dutch, no thanks.
@Craicfox161 11 ай бұрын
You should annex Flanders
@rsfaeges5298 11 ай бұрын
AMERICANS use Dutch every day: COOKIE! BOSS! ORANGE! ....
@cryptocsguy9282 11 ай бұрын
@jarnodatema Sounds like something a Dutch coloniser would say are realising that the nature of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia left you bastards with 270 million less Dutch speakers haha
@cowcow0506 11 ай бұрын
Love that I’m watching this as I sit in a tent in the Australian outback. Impeccable timing as always
@docmcbungas3303 10 ай бұрын
If you want to learn the full history check out 'The Fatal Shore' by Robert Hughes. Fascinating read.
@stephenmoore7122 11 ай бұрын
Liked the nice touch of the dutch east india company faulty map
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