There has been throughout the history of Australia, New Zealand, and America over the years, but they have some in common as well throughout their histories. Some examples that show their similarities are; the British colonization, the gold rush, and independence. But there are some difference like why the British colonize some land, such as the United States and New Zealand and Turned Australia into a prison for convicts.

One of the many similarities is our fight with Britain to gain our independence which took place in 1783 when the peace treaty was ratified. As seen on the other two timelines Britain was at war with Australia and claim Australia in 1778 just five years after the US received their independence. It took a few more years before Britain gained power in New Zealand around 1840.

However, the difference between the settlements of the countries are as follows. People chose to leave England for America to create a new country due to religious reasons and prosecutable. The Australia settlement however, was formed with convicts from England. Due to over crowding and few jails England felt the land was unsuitable and not civilized therefore was a perfect place to send 162,000 convicts to work the land. New Zealand was discovered by Captain Cook who brought muskets to the Maori people who decided it was easier to use this form of weapon to combat unfriendly tribes. The French at the time was also trying to establish land usage so England expedited a treaty with the Maori people who gave away their land to the English for protection.

As you look over the timelines of the three countries their is even more similarities such as the gold rush in the US, the gold rush took place in the 1848 in California which caused mass amount of people to migrate to the west coast to seek fortune. New Zealand's had their own gold rush in 1861 while Australia was in 1850. There was a common thread between the three gold rushes a man named Gabriel Read who lived from 1824 - 1894 had prospected all three sites for gold. Gabriel Read was originally from Australia.

All three countries during the 1900’s all become self governing with democracy as they way to govern their countries. While two of the countries have gained their independence from the British Empire. The United States of course had done this back in the 1783 while New Zealand finally gains theirs in 1947. Australia has only the British Monarch more as a symbolic gesture than as governmental identity as stated before all three countries us a democracy system for governing.

While the United States has apologized to the Native American for taking their land so has the Australian Parliament has had to apologize to the Aboriginal people who first lived in Australia before the convicts had first arrived. The timelines have so many similarities as well as differences through out the history of the world, these are only a few of a vast and rich history of all three countries.

http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html

http://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/the-first-fleet

http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/1stfleet.html List of the first set of convicts from England in 1788

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/read-gabriel/1

Gabriel’s Gully during the height of the gold rush in 1862 in New Zealand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Otago_Gold_Rush

http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/Port_Arthur,_Tasmania

Port Arthur Tasmania where convicts were first placed when they arrived which eventually became a town.

1. In every human culture there are always stories that explain how we got here, people make these stories to explain everything because we want to know everything because that is who we are, we want to know everything and how it works and when we don’t know some thing then we try to explain it. Although we are finding new ideas and theories on how we got here we still hold on to the stories that we were told so long ago and argues with anyone who thinks differently. Though out history people try to change, argue, and even caused wars because of different believes for explain the monkey trial where people were getting all upset because a teacher talked about evolution, creation stories have been around as long as humans have many centuries ago and they still have an impact on society today.
2. From the creation stories of the Australian Aborigine and the Maori we can begin to tell what they values, for instance we can that they both valued male dominance because in the Maoris’ story there were 70 sons and they created one female and in the Australian Aborigines’ story Sun Mother was afraid and did what ever the Father of All Spirits said.
3. Both Australian Aborigines and the Maori creation stories are different there are some similarities like in both there in rebellion and male dominance. But because they were from two areas separated by a large body of water they were some differences, for instance, the Aborigine believed there light in the beginning and the children were first animals and then people, while the Maori believed that there was darkness in the beginning, there were elemental children trapped between their parents, and overcoming difficult challenges.
4. Theses stories show how the weather acts in violent forms as stated in the Maori Story how his brother took revenge for separating their parents. The winds blew and storms were created we see this even today with the tornados and other dangerous storms. In fact recently on February 22, 2011 Christ Church New Zealand had a devastating earth quake with a magnitude of 6.2 creating a lot of devastation to the city and it’s people. You could say the siblings were fighting and the earth opened a swallowed some of it’s people.
5. There are many stories that explain how we came to be and the story I believe is the Theory of Evolution, how it effects my thinking by showing me that all life is similar and that we are animals just with bigger brains and we should use our brains to help the environment. We should help the Earth and better preserve the planet because we only have one Earth.