Yes - it began with Greek sailors deserting their ships in Australian ports to head for the goldfields.
Yes - it began with Greek sailors deserting their ships in Australian ports to head for the goldfields.
Japanese
A rush of migrants to an area where gold has been discovered.Headlong pursuit of wealth and success: a gold rush on Wall Street.
100,000
across land and by ship.
Italian migrants arrived soon after the First Fleet.
the Gold Rush attract lots of people to come to the west
They wanted to get the gold and the riches. The gold rush and a lot of great land inspired them to keep going west.
everyone, they all wanted to get rich quickly.
Wealth and power in a time when that was scarce.
The first Lebanese migrants to Australia arrived in the mid 1800's around the time of the Australian Gold Rush.
it took away the jobs of those who already lived there due to migrants were willing to work for cheap