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What was The British Empire?
    #10443794 - 06/02/09 07:34 PM (14 years, 8 months ago)

Why were those guys taking over all those countries? Was it so that they could protect british businesses who were located in those regions? If that was the case how did the mechanics of the whole thing work out. I was never taught what they were doing. Teachers never said why they had an empire and what the empire was all about. They just mentioned some wars and british taking countries over. They didnt say whether it was over money or what. What were they doing with their establishing of an empire?


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Re: What was The British Empire? [Re: lines]
    #10443815 - 06/02/09 07:37 PM (14 years, 8 months ago)

Their empire extracted wealth from the dominated lands, that was their motivation.  This is in contrast to the modern American hegemony where we inject wealth into lands to maintain our position of power.


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Re: What was The British Empire? [Re: lines]
    #10443823 - 06/02/09 07:38 PM (14 years, 8 months ago)

The BEatles were pretty cool though...


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Re: What was The British Empire? [Re: lines]
    #10444457 - 06/02/09 09:35 PM (14 years, 8 months ago)

The United Kingdom made their conquests strictly for the almighty pound. Their navy protected their commerce, and they dominated everything from tea to opium.  The New World was supposed to be a money maker, but I guess they gained a friend.


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Re: What was The British Empire? [Re: lines]
    #10445625 - 06/03/09 01:28 AM (14 years, 8 months ago)

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Why were those guys taking over all those countries? Was it so that they could protect british businesses who were located in those regions? If that was the case how did the mechanics of the whole thing work out. I was never taught what they were doing. Teachers never said why they had an empire and what the empire was all about. They just mentioned some wars and british taking countries over. They didnt say whether it was over money or what. What were they doing with their establishing of an empire?




Having an empire was just what you did back then, if you could. The British were not from the only ones with a globe-spanning empire; there was also the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. But the Royal Navy was unbeatable, so it was inevitable that the British would come out on top.

The main driving force behind imperialism was a form of economics called mercantilism. It was later superceded by a more advanced theory called capitalism.


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Re: What was The British Empire? [Re: lines]
    #10445960 - 06/03/09 04:25 AM (14 years, 8 months ago)

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What were they doing with their establishing of an empire?




Ensuring that the Sun would never set upon it. :wink:


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Re: What was The British Empire? [Re: fireworks_god]
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What were they doing with their establishing of an empire?




Ensuring that the Sun would never set upon it. :wink:




Reminded me of the movie Gladiator, when Maximus is discussing with the emperor, Marcus Aurelius (I remember Icelander posting some philosophy of this guy, he was a real emperor), when he said, in contrast to the rest of the dark world, "Rome is the light". :sun:

I think I would have preferred to live in Europe at the time of the Roman Empire than the time of the Catholic Empire.  :bouncey:
The tail-end of the American empire is definitely an interesting time though, one only wonders how it will be as national borders will slowly become transparent, and as Christianity slips further away.
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Re: What was The British Empire? [Re: fireworks_god]
    #10446437 - 06/03/09 08:43 AM (14 years, 8 months ago)

“What else, then, is all history, but the praise of Rome?”

One of my favourite quotes. From a founder of the Renaissance, Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374)


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