NCERT Solutions For Class 11 History : Themes in World History Chapter 10 Displacing Indigenous Peoples

• The history of the Australian native peoples was left out of history books because it was written by European settlers.
• Till the middle of the twentieth century, Australian history textbooks hardly mentioned the native peoples except to suggest that the latter were hostile to Europeans.

In American history, the frontier has been defined as the line or area of open and free land where settlement is inadequate.
The western ‘frontier’ of the USA was a shifting one, and as it moved, the natives also were forced to move back.

The natives of South America: They practiced extensive agriculture; the surplus yield enabled them to establish kingdoms and empires.

The natives of North America: They lived in bands, in villages along river valleys. They ate fish and meat, and cultivated vegetables and maize. They did not hunt animals more than their requirement for food. They practiced unique culture of making formal alliances and friendships, and exchanging gifts.

• A museum gallery display is one of the best ways to explain the culture of a people, because it effectively spreads the features of the cultural pasts of a community.
• Cultural museum also categorizes artifacts chronologically and preserve other historical and artistic objects.
• General public, students and researchers can easily access cultural artifacts and study them thoroughly. It transfers cultural knowledge to the future generation.
• Museum gallery display can enable us to understand the culture of a community which is facing cultural destruction, or has vanished already in history.

• With the arrival of European settlers, the landscapes of America changed drastically in the nineteenth century.
• The Europeans treated the land of the natives as their private properties.
• Immigrants from Germany, Sweden and Italy cleared land and cultivated rice and cotton; they sold the yield in European markets for profit.
• They killed many wild animals to protect their huge farms; they were hunted to extinction. The colonisers also invented the barbed wire in 1873.