History/Background
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The aborigines are a cultural group of people that arrived on the coast of Tasmania in Australia anywhere between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago. The aborigines originated in ancient Asia and walked to Australia during the last Ice Age. For millenniums, the aborigines have done everything their way without anything in their way, and it has worked. During the 1600s, merchants from a city known as Makassar on the coast of an Indonesian island called Sulawesi began making annual voyages to the Arnhem Land in Northwest Australia. The aborigines adopted dozens of Makassan words into their vocabulary. Aborigines men became sailors on Makassan ships. On a bad note, the makassans are responsible for spreading small pox to the aborigines.