What is the differences between traditional life of aboriginal people since Europeans colonization?

Answer 1

1) Fewer of them die of starvation. Aboriginal tribes were, for the most part, hunter-gatherer societies. Any change in the weather or the migration patterns of game animals could lead to death. The Europeans, for the most part, were agrarian societies. They lived in fixed locations and grew crops and raised livestock. Agrarian societies produce a LOT more food than hunter-gatherers.

2) Less death from disease. Initially, when Europeans and aborigines interacted, both sides suffered from exposure to new diseases. The aborigines tended to get the worst of it, because of their lack of technological and societal development in the area of health. After a time, European sanitary and medical practices spread, and the aborigines stopped dying as frequently from diseases that would have been endemic in their hunter-gatherer days.

3) The aborigines were exposed to different ideas about how humans should organize themselves, religion and property. Aborigines tended to live very insulated lives before the Europeans settled their land, rarely interacting with anybody outside of their own tribe. Most tribal structures fell apart in the face of this exposure to new and obviously better ideas.

I would not use the "obviously better" line in a paper. Your teacher will probably call you a racist. Race has nothing to do with it, but European cultural superiority does. The Europeans grew as fast as they did and colonized other nations because they had a superior culture that produced science, growing economies, new ideas and military technology. The aborigines clearly did not, or they would have been colonizing the Europeans right back.

4) Travel became easier. European colonists tended to build roads almost as soon as they landed. These roads were non-existent in most aboriginal lands. Why travel game trails and risk breaking your horse's ankle when you can take the road and get there twice as fast with half the trouble?

5) Many of them were educated. Education that does not have to rely on memorizing the lessons of the local shaman was a big step forward.

6) Many of them moved to cities, or built cities themselves. This is clearly a huge difference from the normal hunter-gatherer lifestyle of living in mobile tents following game trails.