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European settlers In 1788 European settlers came from England and began colonizing, the reason was because England needed place for all their prisoners. The indigenous people didn’t like it. They were two really different cultures with nothing in common, so they didn’t fit together. The Aboriginal history changed radically after that. Indigenous people were displaced from their way of living. They were forced to submit to the European rules, and later they tried to encourage them to assimilate into Western culture. It started a war between The European settlers and the Aborigines. In May 1804 around 6o Aborigines were killed when they approached the town Risdon Cove, Van Diemen’s Land. But from the beginning of 1820 until the early 1830, the Black War raged in Van Diemen’s Land. In 1838 twenty-eight Aborigines were murdered at the Myall Creek in New South Wales. It was seven convict settlers responsible for this massacre, and they were hanged. But the Aborigines were not helpless because of that, for example in April 1838 fourteen Europeans were killed at Broken River in Port Phillip District, by Aborigines. The reason was certainly in revenge because their illicit used Aboriginal women. The latest massacre of the Aborigines was at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928. Within 1788 Australia consisted of 250 individual nations. Within each nation, there were several clans, from five to as many as 30 or 40 people. Each nation had its own language and it exist over 250 different. Around 200 of them are now extinct. The standard for Aborigines was really high, and it was higher than many European living in that time. Aborigines didn’t suffer and enjoyed life more than most of the people.