Across
- 3. The part of the world known to Westerners before the Americas were 'discovered'
- 9. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
- 12. A latin term meaning 'land belonging to no one' or 'empty land'; a concept used by the British to justify the settlement of Australia based on the idea that Indigenous Australians did not own the land or possess any claim to it.
- 13. A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them
- 15. To free from slavery or servitude
- 17. Someone who has been formally sentenced by the courts and the law
- 18. Crimes committed by convicts serving their original (primary) sentence in the colony were punished by secondary punishments, such as being sent to a more remote settlement.
- 20. A person who has migrated to an area and established permanent residence there, often to colonise the area.
Down
- 1. the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one
- 2. Taking control of a territory and bringing settlers to it.
- 4. the action of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions.
- 5. the act of getting rid of something; e.g. the movement to destroy slavery
- 6. Old or unseaworthy ships used as prisons due to overcrowding
- 7. Prison workhouses for women convicts transported to Australia
- 8. An area which colonists and Indigenous people are in constant conflict; the frontier in Australia constantly moved.
- 10. Generally farming or agricultural area in which slaves or convicts would work for a single owner.
- 11. Banishment of a criminal to a prison or penal colony
- 14. Statement of a witness
- 16. A person who settled illegally on vacant Crown land
- 19. North, Central, and South America, 'discovered' and colonised by European powers; the term can also be applied to Oceania
