macassan contact with australia造句

• These people are generally regarded as being from the east Indonesian archipelago . ( See : Macassan contact with Australia . ) There is some evidence of Islamic terms and concepts entering northern Aboriginal culture via this interaction.
• A more sporadic contact along the northern Australian coast was maintained by seafarers across the Timor and Arafura Seas, with substantial evidence of Macassan contact with Australia in the centuries prior to European arrival, and also evidence of earlier contacts and exchanges by other groups.
• In " Guns, Germs, and Steel " there's a discussion about how Indonesians discovered north-central Australia before Europeans did, and regularly visited there ( see Macassan contact with Australia ), while aspects of Melanesian culture percolated into the northeastern tip of Australia, but neither of these external influences had any kind of major transformative impact on Australia as a whole . . . talk ) 10 : 45, 11 July 2009 ( UTC)