The Australian GOLD RUSH!

[@Warpwaffel]

A ghost town named Walhalla. That's kinda fitting. XD

[@samuelleask1132]

Warpwaffel a

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

Valhalla?

[@thomaseubank1503]

It is where the Viking Australians go when they die.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Except it's pronounced "walla walla, mate".

[@Noone-rc9wf]

Warpwaffel *I SHALL FIGHT AND DIE ALONG WITH MY BROTHERS IN BATTLE AND THEN FEAST FOR ETERNITY WITH THE KANGAROO GODS IN THE HALLS OF WALHALLA!*

[@Theboyhoodbard]

I'm an American, and I grew up on Western Films. I can only say we owe Australia a debt of gratitude for the Man From Snowy River.

[@sgtwolf0053]

Oh hey Sovereign Hill, I know that place. Those raspberry drops are amazing and I am willing to make the trip *just* for those!

[@lachlans3181]

Sgtwolf00 OMG SAME LMAO

[@niceguyman1671]

I remember buying them on a school excursion

[@hughming]

Cool! My mother's mother's father went to Australia to dig gold twice. The first time got him rich. However, by that time Zhongshan was under the ruling of corrupted Komintang government, which printed a lot of paper money and devalued money a lot. My mother's mother's father had to go to Australia to dig gold again. He never returned to Zhongshan. I am really glade to know the background of my family history.

[@ostrichking6]

Australia is just so... so uninteresting.

[@shadiversity]

You should look up Ned Kelly, an Australian armour clad gun toting robin hood.

[@ardvar2585]

Yep our Australian history classes were pretty boring.

[@ostrichking6]

I am an American, and, thus, do love guns...

[@trock7542]

All the other countries in the world can combine and get some if they want we have plenty of bombs for everyone :)

[@Gauimah]

as an Aussie, i have always found Australia boring, i have always loved the ancient, medieval and civil war histories much more

[@80Sjd]

Hey shad my teacher used this video to teach us about the gold rush and I was watching your vids before it

[@IONATVS]

As a Californian, I can't help seeing the similarities between our two gold rushes. The Californian Gold Rush turned California from a territory like any other in the US's vast frontier into the important hub of industry and player in US politics that its been ever since. San Francisco and Sacramento were both Gold Rush boomtowns, and while the behemoth that is Los Angeles grew up quite a bit later, it's unlikely that California would be the most populous and economically powerful state in the Union (its economy on its own is pretty similar to France's) if it weren't for the prospectors and rail infrastructure that grew to transport their finds.

[@blakewinter1657]

Ballarat! I always remember this as the place featuring in the Sherlock Holmes story, 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery.' Which also involved the Australian gold mines.

[@Philbrush]

Continue this series Shad. You can get into the Eureka rebellion/stockade, branch off into bush rangers...it's an interesting period in Australian history.

[@shadiversity]

It really is and it represents Australia's infancy. I'm definitely going to make some videos about Bush Rangers and Ned Kelly ^_^

[@Philbrush]

Being in NE Vic, i am sort of right in the middle of where Ned Kelly (and other bush rangers) roamed.

[@DzinkyDzink]

Offtopic question: were grapling hooks deployed during the assualts on the fortified walls in Ancient or Medieval times? If not when they started to be used? How effective were they? Would they be effective at storming your castle that you show cased in the "castle parts" videos?

[@fishbulb101]

This helped me so much because im in year 5 and i live in NSW, Australia and for history, i am learning about the Australian Gold Rush! Tysm! - Kaylee a year 5 student

[@dreamers5084]

Same also learning the topic XD

[@samuelleask1132]

Shad, have you made any videos about the use and effectiveness of the spear? It would be awesome to see you do a video on how medieval spears were used. Thanks for looking!

[@MrFwufyClipsHD]

the atmosphere of sovereign hill is amazing, I've been there twice, once when I was 7 and another when I was 12 and it's always so much fun, you really feel like your back in time I'd recommend it for anyone close enough who hasn't been there, but like make sure you have a lot of money with you so you can buy a bunch of stuff and go down into the mines etc

[@Emily-zm1pp]

I’m doing a massive project on this and this video helped very much, thank you!

[@justhope2117]

why was there no gold rushes in Russia? because russians can only rush B

[@Nethan2000]

There can only be a gold rush after Russia leaves the area. In XIX century Russia used to have a small colony in California, but it was difficult to maintain, so they left it in 1842. In 1848 gold was found there and the California Gold Rush started. In 1867 they sold off their colonies in Alaska to the US. In 1896 gold was found there and the Klondike Gold Rush started.

[@maledwarfwarrior]

It's almost as if people who find gold in Russia keep their mouth shut and try to get into the U.S. but that can't be right, right?

[@0hn0haha]

Because rushing to mine gold is considered uncivilized and uncouth.

[@theaussiebogan9680]

RUSH B! CYKA BLYAT!

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

I dun get it. I heard that russia wanted to invade alaska with gunpowder equipped siberians and conquer the US that way. That was an old 19th century plan though (and it would've been feasible back when the US had hardly any army; eg. 1870-80s or pre-civil war).

[@difficultinterest1582]

Man, I love that place! The Eureka Stockade Show is my Favorite

[@shinkicker404]

+Shadiversity, did you play WoW back around when it came out? We had a guy who went by Shad (or Shadorn, as his character was named) in our guild back in the day who was from Victoria and well, you sound kind of like him too.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

5:10 - They used that for crushing apples and making cider too. Except maybe the wheel was wooden so it was a lot lighter, and two people could push it instead of an oxen or draft horse (from BBC's 'Victorian Farm'). Even in 1900 (first decade of 20th century, that is) there were smiths employing watermills to power trip hammers and make steel shovels (took a lot of power to turn an ingot into a plate).

[@Myurridthaekish]

Do they have a park about Emu society during the gold rush?

[@HebaruSan]

My primary exposure to Australia as a youth was via the awesome TV show _Beyond 2000_. I still remember the episode about the bicycle that used cone shapes instead of gears to automatically choose the optimal ratio. And was there one about a flywheel-driven car?

[@chriseash6497]

How good is "The Man from Snowy River"? The movie based on the poem?

[@ZemplinTemplar]

Looks like a proper industrial history open-air museum, with everything it should have. :-) I'm glad you're branching out into making occassional videos on Australian history. Fun fact: The plot of the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" actually has a significant connection to the 19th century gold mining boom in Victoria. Only as part of the backstory, but it is actually rather crucial to the case investigated in that story.

[@mdocevski]

Is the crushing wheel the same Conan was chained to?

[@mudcatfrank7537]

I discovered Ballarat from reading Fergus Hume's "Madame Midas". I became interested enough to look it up on Wikipedia. If a movie is ever made from that book, Ballarat would be the place to film it since many of the nineteenth century buildings are still there.

[@cyrusthebenevolente774]

Do one on Opal? I believe Australia is still the main producer.

[@WarblesOnALot]

G'day, Shad lives 1,500 Kilometres away from Opal Country...; it's in a very small area, whereas nobody can get further than 200 Km from where someone has gone broke by digging a "Gold Mine"... Q.....?, What's the definition of "A Mine" ? A....., "A Hole in the Ground, owned by a Liar !" Such is Life, ;-p Ciao !

[@cyrusthebenevolente774]

WarblesOnALot lol nice hear:)

[@dylanvarcoe7528]

thanks for the help on da home work

[@aussiebloke609]

Great video, mate. I've actually been gold panning, up in Hill End, NSW. Was back breaking work. But I still have the gold I found (admittedly not a lot, but it's technically a played-out area, at least as far as being commercially viable) as a souvenir. The most I saw someone get was about $50 worth in a small nugget. Wish you'd had a picture of the Welcome Stranger nugget, just to give people the potential size one could find if they were lucky and "struck it rich." Cheers, mate. :-)

[@davidbriggs264]

Actually, another surprising thing that changed Australian history? The American Revolution! Prior to the American Revolution, the British were sending their prison population to America, but after the Revolution, they needed a new place to send their excess prisoners, and that became Australia.

[@sammine1692]

Interesting point. Did the american revolution have anything to do with Australia being "Discovered"? Funny how Cook had sealed orders, which he could not open, until after viewing the transit of Venus. He then "discovered" Australia just 5 years after the American revolution had started, having taken away a main naval base (America). Did England require a new naval base around the Asia Pacific region, so it could keep its stranglehold on India and keeping the Chinese doped up with opium (prior to the opium war)? On another point about Australia being an independent nation, If we look at our constitution, our politicians have to swear their allegiance to the crown and not to the Australian people, as is dictated by our constitution. Australians only have title to the land we call Australia. It is owned by the crown. This is based on the legal term "Equity" which means you can have "Title" to property but necessarily own it. Australians please see through the lies we have been told for so long.

[@ARR0WMANC3R]

Yes... Very interesting... But what about the dragons?

[@theaussiebogan9680]

Look up megalania

[@pleb3661]

*when you're American but the Aussie uses the Metric System*

[@theaussiebogan9680]

*when you see an american who doesnt realise nobody but them use imperial*

[@Rynewulf]

*When you're British and you can't decide between the two so you use both*

[@blitz8425]

looks like Jacksonville, Oregon here in the US.

[@moominahmad349]

nice video very informative but i couldn't understand a thing

[@petra123987]

So, when (and how) did it end? When did ghost towns begin to happen, and how many settlements were completely abandoned? What economic activities did the people transfer to?

[@shadiversity]

Oh man, SO many settlements were abandoned it's crazy. It's really quite amazing how extensive the Gold mining was back then. In the regions around Walhalla, specifically a place in the bush called Aberfeldy, you walk into the bush too far and you'll fall down some random mineshaft there's so many of them. you would never know because it looks like primeval wilderness untouched by man miles and miles away from civilisation. My Dad took me and my brothers on exploration trips into the bush to find stuff old mining stuff and seriously, we found so many old abandoned mines, skips (mining carts) even a MASSIVE quarts crushing battery just lying in the middle of the bush. It's freaky how much there was and how deserted and forgotten it all is nowadays.

[@stikibunn]

Although the gold rush died out Victoria still produced gold in large amounts however that gold is deeper down and thus needed heavy industry. Victoria's main export after that period was wheat. In fact so much wheat that the bulk of it's railways were built in the northwest of the state just because that's where the wheat is. So much wheat that in the harvest season the railway shedules for the rest of the state would be changed so locomotives could be moved to help pull the harvest to the docks at Geelong and Melbourne for export. Wheat is not as exciting as gold so it didn't become as important a thing. By 1880 Melbourne was the largest city in the british empire after London and it's focus had shifted to manufacturing, something that continued until the 2000's. The richest person in the country lived in this period Thomas Churnside and his estate at Werribee is a museum today. He farmed sheep in large quantities.

[@sethmitchell2176]

I can't wait to see more of these, this is all really interesting.

[@Lilli_Jay]

Very interesting to hear as I have to admit I know almost nothing about Australian history. I wasn't aware of the gold rush. But are you sure there were just a bit more than 400 000 people living in Australia? So few Aboriginals? Or is it rather that they don't count?

[@mafiacat7738]

They were not counted as the number was for settlers living in Australia, not all people. And there was no way to determine the number of Aboriginals in Australia if their numbers were added.

[@MonotoneCreeper]

Is a criminal record still required for Australian citizenship?

[@thomasdonovan7969]

Does Shad have a video talking about Zweihänders? Or am I an idiot and that's just a fancy name for a greatsword?

[@icresp4263]

thats a german name for greatsword

[@thomasdonovan7969]

iCresp I know but...there's clearly a difference in at least the style of how it's made, and I can't find shit on the internet cause it's just a bunch of Dark Souls crap. If anything it looks more like an oversized claymore...

[@icresp4263]

search Montante, Bidenhander or Spadone, they are all other names for those sorts of swords. Good luck

[@thomasdonovan7969]

iCresp Thanks for clearing it up

[@magpie1999aus]

Nice informative video, legend

[@nobieone3747]

ok just seen the end of this end to see ur from gippsland like me is amzing good on ya mate

[@Ajunta]

Australias history is rather boring compared to the history of other countries, but you can find very fascinating details. Thank you for this vid shad.

[@101bluedrop]

It's the same level of boringness as America's I reckon. British arrived, fucked up the locals, gold rush, outlaws and bush rangers (wild west kinda shit), fought in WW1, got bombed by Japan, fought in WW2, civil rights movement for blacks and all that 60s-70s hippie stuff, Vietnam War and basically any other war that America fought because we're allies. Only major difference I can think of is we didn't rebel against the Empire and we didn't feel the need to have a big civil war.

[@mafiacat7738]

Piss off! We have great history!

[@Ajunta]

I'm sorry. It wasn't my intention to offend someone. I'm sure your history is very fascinating if you look at it closely, and shads vid clearly shows that. What I mean with boring is that in Australias history there is no major event that had a significant impact on the rest of the world, at least i'm not aware of one ( only the discovery and colonisation of the continent perhaps). Its not the cradle of major revolutions spreading around the globe, or the birthplace of worldchanging ideas like hellenism, the renaissance, or the reformation. No world religion originated from there, nor it was the main theatre of a bigger war. In my oppinion to have a less exciting history isn't even a bad thing, at least not for the people living there.

[@101bluedrop]

@Adversary American You just showed you literally know nothing about Australian history. I could just as easily claim that all American history is just the genocide of Indians and then racism towards Africans.

[@mer_meh]

Yes, but is Ballarat well fortified?

[@petra123987]

Also, what did fighting between Aborigines and European settlers look like?

[@ardvar2585]

The Aborigines had huge throwing spears.

[@mafiacat7738]

You non-Aussies think this garbage is funny, but I'm honestly sick of it.

[@mafiacat7738]

Woops, wrong comment.

[@nobieone3747]

wallhall has about 50 permanent residents off the top of my head lovely town pubs grate

[@shadiversity]

Then it's grown, last I heard it had less than ten o.0

[@nobieone3747]

Shadiversity well i might be wrong i belived it was around 50

[@TheNthMouse]

Interesting how the buildings, fonts, and clothes look almost identical to those in California of the same period.

[@JackntheBox256]

Nice to see some Aussie history. Funny, but not really surprising, how all this stuff just seems so Primary School basic to me, but reading the comments shows that not many people really know much, if anything about our history. Hopefully you do some Ned Kelly next, should be interesting to see the comment section after that one. :P

[@shadiversity]

Oh man, I'm definitely going to do a video on Ned Kelly one of these days.

[@roofusonna1846]

Shadversity, just wondering if you are from Ballarat or Bendigo? I'm from Bendigo, and in primary school my class went to Soveign Hill, sat in the Sovreign Hill classroom with a woman pretending to be a teacher in the past, getting angry when we wrote with our left hands and messed about in a pretend goldfield prospecting :)

[@jasjas3264]

Yay! Latrobe Valley boy!...wait you don't mean, you cant mean...NO! not Morwell!!!

[@Ubeogesh]

Do a Kaer Trolde and Vergen review please!

[@ddzzhdzh5778]

Hahaha, I remembered their pies are great

[@meltybagle]

03:34 Never thought I will found weird when the camera moved before xD

[@itsyourboysnorlax7580]

Thanks for the great facts

[@GenericUsername-qp1ww]

I'm confused, I thought Australias historysibly involved getting drunk off their ass and getting into fights with venomous animals.

[@shadiversity]

Or fights with kangaroos ^_^ kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHq1hWqim52Vr9k

[@ryklatortuga4146]

Never forget the Great Emu war of 1932

[@Akm72]

Who won?

[@thigersharkTooth]

Akm72 the Emus

[@wafflingmean4477]

+thigersharkTooth I died when I read that.

[@doctorvader7661]

I ve been there this summer

[@eobardthawne3333]

so this was where the Australium from tf2 comes from

[@bridgettofolon3610]

good vid

[@gabem4208]

I thought the thumbnail was a chicken nugget lol

[@cheesedealer2233]

Sovereign hill where they sometimes make u dress up as a table cloth

[@stormiandme6769]

And make them look like ur face 🖐🏼🙄👍🏻

[@doctorvader7661]

I m australian too

[@jonathandarcy6180]

I live 500m from sovereign hill, I watch shad quite a lot. I could have gotten you a private tour out the back. (black smithing and building wagons) big fan.

[@mafiacat7738]

A 'private tour out the back'. I don't like where this is going.

[@skirt_3062]

nice

[@caleb1016]

A long time ago (last year) I went to that place for a school trip for 5 days... I’m just gonna point that out for some reason.... also what about the dragons?

[@loxycbal7625]

Thanks for digging into 😉 this exciting and interesting part of australian history!

[@starcalz9816]

make one about Ann frank!

[@thomaseubank1503]

Thank you for sharing this with us. I am now more interested in Australian history than ever before.

[@McLovinlt]

Hmm interesting, my WA education led me to believe much of the gold rush was based in WA.

[@mafiacat7738]

Your WA education was wrong.

[@Medicinaqueequilibra]

What about the camels? I saw in History Channel that they were very helpful for the colonials.

[@Czesin]

i guess they would be helpful when trekking in sandy areas and places horses can't go, but in other places horse would prove more useful

[@gamer7916]

Wait, Shadiversity is Australian? For the longest time I thought he was British

[@havoc3742]

Australia, the only other place besides America to have wild west period also only place to have gun culture, despite corrupt, nepotistic Politician's insistance on the contrary.

[@guythatlovesfood9157]

I live there

[@hugs2112]

nice gold

[@hugs2112]

cool me

[@havoc3742]

also, I'd like to add, that Australia's history ( as far as the European's were concerned ) begins with the end of the American war of independance, because that's really where all this came about. see, America was where the brits used to ship all their prisoners, it was a British colony, and a trip across the Atlantic was a lot cheaper and shorter than shipping them to the opposite side of the ruddy planet. unfortunately, after the French tried to take the colony's over and the British came and saved the Americans, the American's got a bit miffed when they were taxed to pay for all the soldiers and ammo spent protecting them from ending up as French citizens, so, they revolted. long story short, America manages to defeat the British, declares itself a new nation, and Britain has no-where to dump it's prison trash. then some dickhead named cook is like, hey, there's this like, huge island on the arse end of the earth that's like, not claimed by anyone ( even though there's some evidence the Dutch settled on Australian soil without realising it was a whole continent, but I digress, nobody knew that at the time ) and they thought, well we want to claim it before anyone else does, and we have all these prisoners, fuck it, two birds, one stone and that is how Australia was settled. because American's didn't want to pay for taxes to pay for a war

[@ImCaveJohnson]

I like your videos a lot. Keep making them.

[@penzalo4119]

someone made a mod about your solitude video

[@valeriusdamon2437]

My school is going to soviern hill and we get to where costumes

[@pieshka4509]

Isn't the history of Australia that criminals were sent there, then Quigley went down under and killed Professor Snape and set things straight then the Joker started shooting the police because of a vendetta against them and after he was hung all was well?

[@jaidenmurfet8381]

yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[@eightywight]

Shadiversity, does Australia have influential writers from their gold rush like Alaska, US had Jack London?

[@nikonei]

P

[@MaxwellTornado]

94.000 KG? Soooo.... 94 tons?

[@endmycancerousexistence6710]

Erik István Fejes 103.6 tonnes

[@MaxwellTornado]

What kind of weird world do you live in, where a ton isn't a thousand kilograms?

[@ZwaartEntertainment]

Erik István Fejes for Americans a ton is 907 kg/2000 pounds. Funny people.

[@MaxwellTornado]

Zwaart Jesus Christ, America never fails to fail me.

[@theaussiebogan9680]

Erik István Fejes fuckin imperial system

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

OZZY OZZY OZZY

[@farmrgalga]

Shad, can you do one on the Eureka Rebellion?

[@mrhotdog8110]

Hi

[@TonboIV]

Some of your comments come off a bit anglo-centric. I suppose you could say that Australia's history began with European settlement, since the Aborigines didn't write, but It kind of seems like you're implying there was just nothing there before colonization.

[@mafiacat7738]

It sounds like you're making a problem out of nothing. The video is about the gold rush, not the Aboriginals.

[@TonboIV]

I don't expect him talk about Aborigines, but when he says "Australia's history is very short" , or talks about "Australia's population", when he clearly means the European population, it makes it sound like he's just forgetting the Aborigines even existed. All he had to say was something like "Australia's recorded history is very short." or "Australia's European population." I'm not suggesting this should be a video about the Aborigines, but the phrases he uses make it sound like there was no one there before the settlers.

[@1512125]

Very interesting stuff, normally I would just think about California when I hear anything about a gold rush, this changes that

[@mafiacat7738]

As an Australian, if I hear 'gold rush', California might as well not exist.

[@mondocool5670]

Where Australia really shines is it's infinite list of deadly animals that can kill you, land and sea, that is where the excitements at! I still remember the dingo eating that ladies baby and the legion of spiders that just invaded maningrida, actually covered the whole town with web

[@maclennanld]

don't forget the plague of mice and locust plagues

[@mondocool5670]

I actually didn't know Australia ever had plagues :O

[@sari6679]

The start though (rude much) 🙄🙄

[@stormiandme6769]

How?

[@gideonm.7425]

real life koprulu sector..

[@darken2417]

Australia has a past? Didn't they just become independent..... like last week? Or has it already been a month? Better start checking the calendar.

[@heathermcfarlane6164]

The Australian Gold Rush lured a number of people from Mid Argyll.. splitting up families, by the way.. see: www.knapdalepeople.com/lkIntro.html and www.knapdalepeople.com/DMLetters03.html. The latter is from Angus McGilp, saying "I was informed that her family was making for Australia and that you were of the same mind yourself. America is nothing thought of here besides Australia. Dugald Gillies, Duntaynish, is making for the latter place next month and John McFaden that was in Ardbeg,. I hear of no other persons that are going this year but themselves. "

[@johnemcnulty]

Ugh 😩

[@johnemcnulty]

I don’t like your vidoes

[@johnemcnulty]

Sorrrrry

[@thepovertysoldier9220]

hey I'm pretty early. I don't expect anyone to care.

[@cadepaget]

I care... That you took first comment. DAMN YOU! And second comment.

[@jaidenmurfet8381]

boi

[@jaidenmurfet8381]

yst

[@beckyhomemademath]

A bit concerning that your history of population of Australia didn't include Aboriginals!

[@eversor55]

Interesting video, would love to see more in Aussie history we don't get taught that much of it or if any at all ii schools in Blighty. Aboriginal history would be cool, any that I know personally is from the great Australian Les Hiddins, love that guy. Australian independence would be a good subject, cheers for the effort chap:)

[@brumalogresteer4124]

great video shad! just as interesting as American history.😉

[@senatuspopulusqueromanus3011]

I know I said this on your last video... But it really is crazy how similar it looks to mid to late 1800's frontier America... like spooky crazy... like, you have been deceiving us and you really live in the states, crazy. TBH though (and you would probably know this better then I would), Australia always reminds me more of the U.S. then it does the U.K. (You would probably reverse that and say that the U.S. and/or U.K. reminds you more of Australia... but I'm just rambling now). Anyway... Fantastic as always.

[@BrotherRanceGwynne]

Your Favorite Sheepdog We are most similar to California also i consider California to have the closest accent to us.

[@senatuspopulusqueromanus3011]

Rance Rossetto really? Because I would have said Texas, for both the atmosphere and the people.

[@BrotherRanceGwynne]

Your Favorite Sheepdog California/Texas is a better term i was going to include that in my first comment but i was busy at the time.

[@Fuzzycat16]

Gold!!!!!!!!! Hey . Interesting video, thanks for the upload.

[@ronanswinbourne2123]

Play Roblox I am the first account