For one thing, when you divide one number by another, you expect the result to be another number. Look at the sequence of numbers 1/(1/2), 1/(1/3), 1/(1/4), ... . Notice that the bottoms of the fractions are 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ..., and that they're going to zero.
It was moved to the site of Brisbane the following year. By 1829 there were almost 1000 prisoners, more than 100 of whom were women, but by 1839 only 107 convicts remained. The penal era ended in 1842 when the Moreton Bay area was opened to free settlement, with Brisbane Town as its centre.Today, only the Windmill Tower and the Commissariat Store, both built by convict labour, still stand as markers of those times.enal Colony and Early Settlement History. During some of the earliest chapters of Australian exploration, it was decided that a second penal colony should be established at Redcliffe in 1824 to house the most recalcitrant of Sydneyâs convicts.
FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT 1. Why did the English want to establish a colony in America? For wealth and power. 2. What did the English think they would find in America? Silver and gold 3. What are raw materials? 4. What did England hope to do with Americaâs raw materials? An American settlement would furnish raw materials that could not be grown or obtained in England, while opening new markets for trade. 5. What is an economic venture? Something that is done to make money. 6. Why was Jamestown founded? As an economic venture 7. How was Jamestown financed? By the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London 8. What was the Virginia Company of London? The stockholders who financed Jamestown 9. What was the first permanent English settlement in North America? Jamestown 10. When was Jamestown founded? 1607 11. Where was Jamestown located when it was first established? On a narrow peninsula surrounded on three sides by the James River 12. Where is Jamestown located today? On an island in the James River 13. Why did the colonists decide on the location of Jamestown to settle?