Oceania is one of the 5 continents, although it is referred to as simply Australia a lot of the time. Oceania is a group of islands southeast of Asia and west of the Americas. It consists of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Hawaii (geographically located in Oceania despite being governed by the United States of America and treated as a part of North America).
For a long time, Oceania was not very developed at all, and large portions of it were not even inhabited, particularly Australia. There were still people there, but there was no sort of centralized government. They would use stone and bone tools, rather than the iron and steel weapons of Europe. Spears and boomerangs were used for hunting. Their houses were built of simple wood. The diets of the people of Oceania consisted of kangaroos, grubs (like worms and insects), moths, turtle eggs, and fruit bats.
Eventually, Europeans found Oceania during the age of exploration and began to colonize it. Britain began to colonize parts of Australia around 1750, along with the other nations of Europe like the Netherlands and France. In the world tour we did not cover much about the colonies, but said that they existed at the time of starting this course.
Oceania was very primitive until the Europeans came. Their tools and diets and buildings were very basic. There was little to no government. However, Oceania would go on to become some of the most important European colonies in the future.