Colonisation of Australia

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Across
  1. 3. Taking land and control without permission from those already living there.
  2. 4. What Britain wanted to gain by expanding its empire.
  3. 6. What happened to British prisons before Australia was colonised.
  4. 7. A term meaning "empty land" used to justify colonisation.
  5. 9. A reason for colonisation—taking land and resources for profit.
  6. 11. Taking ownership of land, with or without permission.
  7. 12. A group of lands controlled by one powerful country.
  8. 13. Taking over farmland in Britain, which displaced poor people.
  9. 15. Permission; something the British were told to get before claiming land.
  10. 16. Forceful takeover of land, usually without consent.
  11. 17. A person or group’s point of view about an event.
Down
  1. 1. A colony where prisoners are sent to live and work.
  2. 2. The British explorer given secret instructions to claim land.
  3. 3. What the British claimed they were spreading to other cultures.
  4. 5. Important paths for buying and selling goods across the world.
  5. 8. Peacefully moving to a new place to live (often wrongly used for 1788).
  6. 10. The supposed scientific reason for Cook’s journey (e.g., tracking Venus).
  7. 14. How the British viewed their culture, religion, and technology.