Why wasn't Australia colonized by one of the Asian countries?
>>17975532Australia is a shithole with the worst quality soil on earth, plus Asians don't have the Faustian spirit.
>>17975532the chinese tried to in the 1100s but the aboriginal empire fought them back with their advanced weaponry and warfare skills
>>17975542Indonesians knew about Arnhem land and New Guinea but never colonized them because they are isolated shitholes full of ooga-boogas.
Why didn't Australia have any human settlement until the British showed up?
>>17975576They literally slept under bark and if it got cold they'd start a big fire. If they got hungry they'd go crush a kangaroo's skull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tOkb1y7hEs
>>17975594I'm surprised they could start a fire desu. That's some late game tech for them....
>>17975598kek, classic
Zheng He had the opportunity to colonize, but there were just more metals and materials in India. It was the British who were interested in penal colonies.
>>17975532Emus
>>17975604you think that's bad? I have to actually live in this country.
Australia's mineral wealth was only useful after the industrial revolution It's a late game country
>>17975532>Why wasn't Australia colonized by one of the Asian countries?I'm under the vague impression it was a mixture of two things:1. The overwhelming majority of Australia was, at the time, a red barren rock with minimal places to land ashore or really do anything constructive with. It's probably better up north, but I do know that massive portions of the western side of the continent, and south, are basically inhospitable. 2. Colonization is actually really, really, difficult, and expensive. China only colonized so much of East Asia and South East Asia because it was a mixture of familiar environment and a number of semi-developed *people already living there they could conquer/assimilate. >>17975576*Aborigines are people, they're just some of theee "not good at thinking like us" people you'll ever encounter. I'm not gonna say they're stupid in the same way I wouldn't Homo Erectus was stupid. Australian Abo's are perfectly adapted to and possess an encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. There is no question in their skill to: eat bug, dig up a root, kill marsupial, hunt with dog, and hide naked in the 50 Celsius outback without any tools or equipment for 6 months. They are a perfectly exceptional hominid that completely dominated their environment. They also supposedly have the largest amount of non-human genetic material (I've heard as high as 40% neanderthal & denisovan mixture).
>>17975820>Aborigines are people
