How Britain Became The World's Largest Empire

Looking at how the British Empire became the largest in history
#Britain #History #Empire

[@rock3tcatU233]

1. An isolated homeland 2. A powerful navy 3. The ability to divide and conquer

[@kendalson7817]

You nailed it 100%.

[@jasondevon481]

Britain is not an "isolated island", it is off the coast of the most contested continent on Earth and right next to several world super powers in their day. Our ancestors fought like tigers to create that empire.

[@shehzadahmed6088]

@@jasondevon481 agreed

[@chillkaro911]

@@jasondevon481 Also they were so evil and cunning like fox.

[@normannorman1842]

@@jasondevon481 Lions not tigers ;)

[@madzangels]

1. Stiff upper lift 2. Tea and Biscuits 3. Banter 4. Pub brawls 5. Sarcasm

[@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii7738]

madzangels umm... do you mean stiff upper lip lmao

[@Coys319]

madzangels 6. Wetherspoons

[@lewstone5430]

@madzangels quite.

[@brandonromano315]

*irony...not sarcasm

[@nihilus1650]

Greggs

[@xeji4348]

7 Years War - WW1 The Great War - WW2 World War 2 - WW3

[@dizzyguy101]

@@logandisilvestri4295 We basically only lost the American revolution

[@LookHereMars]

The Collapse of the US Dollar - WW4

[@sword_of_damocle5]

7 Years War - WW1 Napoleonic Wars - WW2 World War 1 - WW3 World War 2 - WW4

[@youraveragedailygamer5448]

@@dizzyguy101 how about james ear war

[@dizzyguy101]

Ji Yang the what?

[@wills5945]

It’s actually kind of a myth that losing the 13 colonies was a big hit to Britain, it’s mainly perpetuated by the Americans. In terms of value to Britain, the island of Jamaica alone provided more monitory value than all 13 colonies combined. Having the 13 colonies wasn’t very valuable to Britain as the people weren’t taxed a lot in comparison to mainland Britons (13x less)

[@lewstone5430]

Eeeear! I taught dee bloody colonies were worth a mint mate? Crikey!

[@wills5945]

Lew Stone I don’t think British people talk like that.

[@wills5945]

Lew Stone I’m no Brit, just a student of history. However I’m pretty sure the word is blimey.

[@lewstone5430]

Blimey!!

[@lewstone5430]

Now bugga off little Willy!

[@cebonvieuxjack]

actually the worst catastrophe for the British Empire wasn't the second but the first world war, as Britain went from the biggest colonial investor in the world to its biggest debt owner.

[@adamdesouza6153]

British neutrality in WW2 would've saved the empire and paved the way for new British dominance over Europe. British resources more specifically middle eastern oil, would've cleared so so, so many obstacles in an axis victory in Europe. We could've sat back, sold Germany tonnes of stuff and saved London's financial power but we did the morally right thing.

[@adamdesouza6153]

@Alfa&Omega 00000 It was more of posing a threat to the mainland than the Empire. a hostile Germany that just defeated France could not be allowed to continue

[@adamdesouza6153]

@Alfa&Omega 00000 Never claimed it was out of good will, a continent spanning Germany would've taken several decades to match the Royal Navy. Like the French under Napoleon, better to fight them now than later. I don't know what that outshine statement is supposed to mean

[@adamdesouza6153]

@Alfa&Omega 00000 I mean, we joined the war for geo politcal status quo reasons, but in the end it was morally correct as the concentration camps showed. Germany wasn't close to closing the cap, the Royal navy was bigger and more capable than the Kriegsmarine in every category, several times over.

[@adamdesouza6153]

Alfa&Omega 00000 Nope check the numbers again. Less than half British dreadnoughts and way less of the other ship types. And Germany never declared war on Britain and never wanted to fight Britain in WW1 so I don’t know where that WW1 statement is coming from?

[@yenneferofvengerberg9588]

its because its an island, which is very advantageous for so many reasons. it isnt a small island, its not too big either.. like the goldilocks effect.

[@aurelian3268]

for 300 years the Brits sat on Neptune's throne

[@guesly-a.coulanges1959]

For 700 years, the French empire sat on Jupiter throne.

[@joelbattyman79]

@@guesly-a.coulanges1959 what?

[@lewstone5430]

@Davy Jones where was Neptune?

[@enderlinde3152]

@@guesly-a.coulanges1959 And for 800 Spain sat on the oceans, lands, and skies of the world

[@pingukutepro]

I think there are two big factors to the powerful British: 1/ Toleration Act 1689 2/ Constitutional monarchy start in 1689 Both this help internal British stablize.

[@justinpachi3707]

Constitutional monarchy is debatable. Had France won the war of Spanish Succession the Ancien Regime Bourbob France would have continued.

[@cotefabrice1801]

3/ the fact that britain is an island

[@50shekels]

Bub Huynh lol bullshit. They all just cowarded on an island for 2 millennia

[@connor4435]

10.000 Subs With No Videos no, the English fought countless wars on the European mainland

[@connor4435]

Bub Huynh fair point, the fact that Britain was able to be stable for so long (outside of the English Civil Wars) allowed the country to consolidate power and allowed to keep positive relations with several countries that helped beat the two greatest threats to the Empire, France and Germany

[@takeahint683]

What r u talking about?Portugal and Britain were allies (thanks to England)They wouldn't have been fighting

[@TheRagingStorm98]

The longest lasting alliance is between England and Portugal.

[@takeahint683]

The Raging Storm yea that's want I meant is since England is apart of the uk they would be allies with Portugal

[@Mancboy2000]

No, in fact Portugal played an important role in destroying Spain as a contender in the Great Game of Imperialism.

[@obeservador98]

CALiGeR190 Portugal was literally the achilles' heel of spain

[@sulphuric_glue4468]

England fought Portugal while it was under Spanish rule and brief French occupation, but the alliance is between the monarchs rather than the countries and England remained allied with the Portuguese royal family who had temporarily fled to Brazil

[@Normalguy1690]

42 dislikes from Italians French and Mongolians.

[@biliminsrlar5752]

If Africans could dislike they would add even more.

[@philmorris7964]

Guess you live in little England then? Expand your mind... please

[@Normalguy1690]

Phil Morris no I live in Ulster there is more to the UK than just England.

[@Coys319]

Phil Morris That little England ruled a 1/4 of the worlds population at one point

[@philmorris7964]

@@Normalguy1690 Ulster won't be in the UK for much longer anyhow 😂🤣😂

[@jasondevon481]

This video TOTALLY neglected to mention all the scientific and technological advancements achieved by its people that aided Britain in its expansion. These were partly possible because of civil rights and the freedom to experiment (without the Vatican interfering) given to its citizens. It's a shame that today our freedom of speech is under threat more than ever before.

[@tacticalidiots2340]

@Megaton Rotten Mouth you are uneducated

[@deadaccount3533]

Megaton Rotten Mouth wow you’re uneducated 1st mistake: Soviet comparison. The Soviet ssr’s functioned very differently 2nd mistake: Reich doesn’t refer to the Nazis at all.

[@deadaccount3533]

goff0103 so you mean the parts of the world that actually matter at this point

[@biliminsrlar5752]

*Cough* civil wars in Middle East *Cough* starvation in Africa *Cough*

[@Jeanalexandre_]

We created almost everything in the modern world after industrialisation. We even created the fucking internet.

[@nicholasjames1101]

Great commentary and knowledge. Brilliant.

[@SpanishDio]

It's always said that Britain was the largest empire but it was the one that had the most square kilometers of wastelands, Like 80% Of Australia, the deserts of Sudan and Egypt etc. and the quote the "Sun never sets" was first used TWO centuries before by the Spanish Empire.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

Except the sun did technically set on the Spanish empire I'm pretty sure

[@SpanishDio]

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 Not during his Empire tho

[@ivanmartinez-jd8gi]

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 no It didnt

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

@@ivanmartinez-jd8gi I guess the Americas, the mainland and the Philippines but what did they have in the Indian ocean/east coast of Africa?

[@ivanmartinez-jd8gi]

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 the portuguesse territories that they got from the portuguesse succesion war

[@donben91]

And we still do. Nothing's changed. We even CONtrol Time

[@koltonheath2517]

lmao

[@gilgabro420]

you don't control monnnney The UUUUSSSSAAAA does that! Sad... I want to control it... I want to control everything! I'm not German I swear... no need to get worried! **swatting profoundly**

[@Oxley016]

@@gilgabro420 The GBP has been worth more than the USD pretty much for ever mate

[@gilgabro420]

@@Oxley016 well that might be true but the usd is controlling everything today.

[@lyuboslavpetrov9187]

my stomach hurts

[@briansheehan5256]

A successful Cape Town-Cairo railroad was a wet dream for the Empire. Shame that it could not be completed.

[@connor4435]

We won because we had one simple dream, CAPE TOWN TO CAIRO

[@olivia54700]

You, good sir, are going to be the help I need to ace my British civilisation course XD Your videos are so detailed and well explained ! Thank you for the hard work

[@Fireoflearning]

Some of my favorite comments are people saying I've helped them succeed in school. Thank you, and good luck!

[@lewstone5430]

@Olivia it’s still no substitute for reading a book.

[@lizzief4461]

There was a time when the king of England owned more of France then the french king

[@jibran4794]

And that king spoke French as his first language.

[@JJaqn05]

@@jibran4794 No, that King spoke English. Of course French too but that's because French was the language of the nobility. Nothing to do with France itself. A similar situation with English today except English is a global language

[@smal750]

@@JJaqn05 no he spoke french and french only since 1056 lol

[@smal750]

King? French vassal*

[@JJaqn05]

@@smal750 1056 you mean 1066? dumbass

[@alexgomez1621]

Great summary. Thank you for providing something to watch and learn while on my free time.

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

Can anyone suggest why, the UK produced Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin and the Beatles, four popular entertainers without equal ?

[@jackielol7674]

@!? innit!

[@justinoppermann3997]

Or Germany Goethe Einstein etc

[@philipm06]

Britains got talent.

[@tzuyuhypetrain9791]

A little country know as Britain became the most powerful country back in the days. Creativity, Colonized, Divide and Rule. Respect

[@shaywright6608]

When you own around 1/3 of the world and you literally just *give it up*

[@Shinbaal99]

cannot sustain =/= giving up

[@sleepingstate1978]

Lols. Britain did not give anything up.

[@shaywright6608]

@@sleepingstate1978 *Ghandi literally just refuses to eat and they lose and entire subcontinent*

[@sleepingstate1978]

@@shaywright6608 You are so correct. Ghandi doesn't eat dinner one day and Britain decides to withdraw from the subcontinent. Shaywright, Your version of history saves everyone from all those boring things like facts. Keep it up.

[@sleepingstate1978]

Its almost as if you are writing history via the means of tabloid headlines.

[@FlyBarIP]

I feel like the world is similar to the Total War game ... like Britain is Easy while Poland is suicide

[@sp4rtavus244]

Keep the coming coming. Great vid

[@yungmacro3801]

If the theory of England being separated holds true, then why didn’t Madagascar experience a similar rise to power? Same for Australia? I don’t buy that at all considering how close they were to the most heavily contested continent in human history

[@drunkcatphil9911]

The U.K. united under one flag unlike Australia and Madagascar so that helped a lot. Being an island and close to major rival powers meant it was simply a must to invest heavily in a powerful navy but also the exchange of technology and new ideas flowed relatively freely (unlike in Australia and Madagascar who had no one significant to talk to and exchange cutting edge ideas with). We also had a lot of natural resources that fuelled the industrial revolution and a culture of exploration and conquest that we inherited from the Norse, Norman’s and Anglo-Saxons tribes. The peoples of Britain lived on a relatively small island making communication significantly easier and in an ideal climate zone. Australia is hot as shit and mostly desert. Not exactly ideal. And Madagascar is hot dense rainforest. Not ideal either. Britain had simply the perfect set of cultural requirements, geography (which is a seriously underrated factor by people) and selection pressures to produce an enormously potent naval power.

[@Swift-mr5zi]

@@drunkcatphil9911 Good explanation

[@chasespeer251]

Secret to starting a massive empire: 1: Invade everyone that doesn't have guns to shoot back 2: ??? 3: Profit

[@Coys319]

chase speer You think the French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese were any different? Read a history book Anglophile we were just much better at it.

[@chasespeer251]

@@Coys319 I mean that would literally apply to any country that had an empire during the gunpowder age. Where's all that British banter that your all droning on about?

[@joelbattyman79]

@@chasespeer251 what the fuck are you talking about

[@adamdesouza6153]

@@chasespeer251 British banter only applies if we're friends..

[@chasespeer251]

And a sense of humor only exist if it's not at your expense I am finding out. Brits sure do have a lot of silly rules I am learning

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

They sure as hell not ruling there own country now.

[@sp4rtavus244]

Gruggs Giero yes our country is sick atm like USA.

[@AllPaperTaker-KingG]

Why? Because the Muslims are there?

[@topbanana8438]

can you prove that. im all ears , we only country with usa still in Syria fighting on ground , to much waffle you mate

[@Max-zq4dx]

@@darrenbolgercomposer Accelerationism, feminist women realizing having whites around is kinda useful for keeping their rights. Sharia would shatter their view of how the world works.

[@Max-zq4dx]

@@darrenbolgercomposer Agreed, I don't really believe what I said, I just like saying it to Britons who are complacent with leaving a destitute situation for their descendants.

[@jamesoakley4570]

Back when the world was a better place

[@AliTwaij]

Brilliant Thankyou

[@YankeeNationalist]

1. Anglo-Saxon blood and its associated liberty 2. Protestant work ethic and its associated effects on the economy 3. A divine Manifest Destiny by God to conquer North America, Africa, Australia, and other places 4. Island country 5. Strong navy The Britain only diminished because it was eclipsed by one of its own Anglo-Saxon offspring: the United States. ALL HAIL THE PROTESTANT ANGLO-SAXON EMPIRE

[@connor4435]

Yankee Doodle RULE BRITANIA

[@connor4435]

George Harris it’s a fucking joke

[@northmeister]

And we are not done. The future is in a Great Alliane of America, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and possibly a West South Africa made of of the descendants of Boers and English. That is the future. The EU and China our greatest enemies and challenges. Russia our future ally as in the past. A Thousand Year Empire of Freeman speaking English and with a shared heritage.

[@northmeister]

@@connor4435 RULE the ANGLO-ALLIANCE of America, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand!!!! and our allies in Europe like Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine.

[@0.0-c5o]

@@northmeister Hahahahahhahahaahaja poor guy, do you think in an alliace between all that countries? Canada, UK, USA, South Africa, Australia and New Zeland will be BLACK/MUSLIM.

[@seelight6569]

We earned it. When we was a super power we beat our rival superpower Spain by finishing its Spanish Armada. They had the biggest navy in the world came to our island and tried to over take us. But we had state of the art weapons more powerfull cannons. like you said science.. It was a disaster for them they lost there whole navy... Europeans have always envied us even till this day. lol

[@tornasukiii745]

"We". Bro you didnt do shit youre here posting youtube comments lol

[@tomblack4634]

I never get these comments, we did this and we did that? That’s like an Italian boasting over the Roman Empire.

[@spaghettimeatballs6352]

Yet you conveniently don't mention how the British completely ruined India, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, China, and killed million upon millions of people.

[@PzPewwi]

@@spaghettimeatballs6352 didn't ruin it we improved it

[@spaghettimeatballs6352]

@@PzPewwi How so?

[@OhYessirrr]

Say what you will about the generational consequences of colonialism, imperialism, mass genocide and slavery, all unfortunate legacy of Britain, it is still the single most fascinating global force. From tiny insignificant island to world power. Amazing. The ultimate underdog.

[@mpsmith35]

The British Empire abolished slavery

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

When France conquers Europe, it's a revolution. When Britain conquers the world, it's told like an epic tale. When Germany attempts to conquer the world, the whole world teams up against Germany. ...

[@Fafuncho]

"history is made by victory" "When Britain conquers the world, it's told like an epic tale." - 7 years war, won "When France conquers Europe, it's a revolution." - french rev./nap. wars, kinda won "When Germany attempts to conquer the world, the whole world teams up against Germany" - ww1/ww2, horribly lost Extra - in all cases it was a, basically, world war, just that in ww1 and ww2 the guns killed a lot more

[@B1345-q2s]

Us brits and our French cousins didn’t genocide specific populations because we didn’t like them.

[@sleepingstate1978]

@@B1345-q2s Yes they did, for real mass exterminations. You need to read up on this before jumping in like that

[@sleepingstate1978]

@@B1345-q2s The biggest mystery to me in modern history has always been: how has Britain convinced the world it didn't spend the last 3 hundred years fucking them over royally? the last 50 years all anyone goes on about is the Nazis, maybe a bit about Stalin. Those guys are not a patch on the British empire for straight up badass evil empires.

[@B1345-q2s]

sleepingstate1978 give me an example of people being exterminated just for being who they are under the British empire?

[@stingy8029]

best empire ever strongest empire largest empire strongest superpower to ever exist. wow

[@tosukamary2121]

Rome is the greatest

[@stingy8029]

@@tosukamary2121 rome was tiny

[@tosukamary2121]

@@stingy8029 all' the worldknown and the greatest nations under rome

[@stingy8029]

@@tosukamary2121 only england wales frnace was under it canada was bigger than all the rome empires combined

[@reidparker1848]

@@tosukamary2121 Rome was unsustainable economically, more barbaric (the Colosseum for example), produced less scientific achievements, and was in a recession for like 70% of its existence (the early republic and the rule of the 5 emperors being the notable exceptions). The best thing that Rome did was collapse.

[@GuyFawkes1]

My question would be, how they had the income to invest in the navy so early on?

[@caspianhorlick4529]

Actually it was Henry VIII who started investing into the Royal Navy, probably with all that fat cash from the dissolution of the monasteries after he basically said "Fuck the Pope I'll do it myself" and made the Church of England

[@Swift-mr5zi]

@@caspianhorlick4529 Henry the 8th was a lad, very proud

[@espadajusta4380]

@@fookdatchit4245 In 300 years no single spanish treasure fleet was captured by English. Only once, dutch privateer Piet Hein captured one fleet. England had a strong navy in exchange of a very week army. For instance, during Crimean war, the french found the brittish army to be obsolete and poorly organised. As well germany (Prussia) and Russia had stronger armies with weak navies. France and Spain had to divide their resources, since they needed both army and navy.

[@jibran4794]

I would say one of the biggest advantages that knocked off others was a hands-free approach to colonisation. They let greedy merchants do that work who were clearly more motivated. This way conquests occurred, but even if they failed, it was the marchants that failed not them.

[@vestty5802]

Bit of trivia: Britain’s army was 1/2 English 1/3 Irish 1/6 Scottish

[@theoraclerules5056]

What % Welsh? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@vestty5802]

The Oracle Rules not quite sure

[@vestty5802]

Sternia Hoenheim imperialist niggas

[@jasondevon481]

Nonsense. The racial and national composition of our fine army has varied greatly over the centuries. Most of our army has usually been English, because most of our people are English.

[@johnathons1789]

@@jasondevon481 Black boys and Muslims own England now and they own english gals too

[@rikbowers9997]

You say the British empire reached its greatest extent in 1920, and on the map you show Australia as part of it. But Australia became independent in 1901. How can it be part of the empire if it is independent of the empire?

[@British-monarchist.]

It was a dominion. All dominions are still part of the empire.

[@rikbowers9997]

@@British-monarchist. I learnt something from this. I never knew that before.

[@HistoryforThinkers]

*Gone but not forgotten.*

[@philmorris7964]

Yeah... like who could ever forget their country being raped, pillaged and plundered

[@livethefuture2492]

It would have been more interesting to explore why exactly Britain's Empire was so much more successful than other contemporaries. Its easy to conquer a lot of land quickly as France and Germany and Russia have done, but to retain it is another matter. The British Empire had a far greater influence on the foundations of the modern world and modern economy and of the whole idea of the Western world as we know it. Britian and her former colonies (Yes. That includes the United States), played an instrumental role in the development of the modern western world. I wish you would have explored that aspect in more detail, why overall did Britian's colonies fare much more successful than say of Spain or France. And so on. I wish you had covered that aspect of it in more depth. This felt like a very surface level view of the legacy of Britain and was wholly insifficient to give justice to what is arguably the most influential nation in modern history.

[@williamarthurfenton1496]

Losing the American colonies wasn't actually all that much of a bother at all-- because they almosty instantly resumed a lucrative trade which was the biggest market to both the US and Britain.

[@joss8558]

The idea that we were protected by the sea is fundamentally wrong. It's a misconception that seems natural to people with cars. Until the development of modern roads and cars, it was far easier to move an army by sea than over land. Especially once heavy equipment like canons had been developed.

[@skullcrucher45]

What about hurricanes and storms

[@Master_of_Critique]

Let’s be honest, the reason the Irish got their independence is because the brits still thought of the Irish as subhumans even into the 20th century. The Irish couldn’t be complacent like the Scots, who felt the English actually wouldn’t be perpetually hateful and could actually co-exist in the same country as them (which has been the case for the past 300 years for the most part). It was the intolerable oppression against the Irish, that ironically, motivated them to wage war every generation until the brits finally gave up in 1921.

[@Cat-bg2ge]

The British are diabolically evil. 😢

[@Cat-bg2ge]

Even the Irish hate the Irish. In the U.S. our prosecutor for life, had an opportunity to feed my baby son, who was Irish, I had gone to him for help, and he gave me a thumb's down. I also was pregnant, and I worked seven day's a week, 10 hour day's. And made $92.00 a week. Barely enough to pay the rent. My rich husband had run off. Mr. O'Brien gave me a thumb's down. He took the side of my black caseworker. Consequently, my adorable Irish child, got the pinched look, of the starving Irish. I was so afraid he was going to die. 😢 None of us ate more than a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a bag of orange's, weekly, that my neighbor bought over. My other two children from another husband, ate lunch at school. My husband had spent his first lottery installment on beer mostly, and he had left. I called the Huntington bank trust department and asked if they could get a loan for food. They also 😢said no. I went to court with my lawyer, the court awarded my lawyer, $5,000. He knew we were starving, but gave us nothing. That was in August. The next installment of lottery money didn't come in till April. That was almost a whole year with no food.😢

[@TheRick8866]

Indo Europeans can’t help themselves from war and or expansion. The mix of Anglo Saxon and Scandinavia make England unique because they are more genetically Indo European than most

[@ivanmartinez-jd8gi]

Its not just genetics that doesnt Matter at all, also every ethnicity has in its Blood the Desire to expand, just look at the mongol or spanish empire.

[@haltdieklappe7972]

the welsh, cornish, manx, scottish and irish ethnic groups are all celtic. however, english people are a mix of anglo saxon, norman, norwegian, danish and roman blood

[@Swift-mr5zi]

@@haltdieklappe7972 kzbin.info/www/bejne/d57Vgaykhraoh9U

[@roocmon5105]

ETHIOPIA WAS NEVER COLONIZED!

[@Crashed131963]

I thought Italy owned that?

[@roocmon5105]

@@Crashed131963 Italy never colonized Ethiopia. Even though they tried twice. The last time they came there General said it was the worst decision the fascist government ever made.

[@TheCardiffMafia]

All hail Britannia. I thank the Romans for our greatness.

[@tomblack4634]

We should thank the Romans’ and the Romans should thank the Greek colonies

[@cebonvieuxjack]

@@tomblack4634 wtf are you guys on ?

[@lewstone5430]

And the Greeks should thank the Minoans!

[@hamzamohamed2010]

@@lewstone5430And the Minoans should thank me

[@louisalfrednickolasgabriel7020]

#rulebrittania #godsavethequeen #longmayshereign

[@korblox_corporal8210]

Had too much tea

[@cromabu5090]

Mate you can’t pronounce Trafalgar.

[@Turnipian]

he clearly likes it

[@emelianenkoo]

England started to become Britain?

[@KaruSnep]

Look it up on Google

It didn't rule the world, it failed and now it's closer to north korea than ruling the world.

[@teslaandhumanity7383]

Half the size of California. Also the fact Britain divorced the Roman Catholic Church helped massively.

[@astrofabio68]

England only have a lot of territories under one ruler, and only exists for 130 hundred years aprox, the major extension was between 1800 to 1830...Spain had a real Empire during 350 years, when each territories wasn't a colonies, each viceroyalty was Spain....and the people of that places can acess to power and administration..that is a Real empire, like Rome, Ottoman, etc...of course ell Europe, specially the anglosaxon protestant Europe , they build their self esteem trough the black legend

[@northmeister]

Spain was horrible at Empire. Britain has left a legacy in successful nations like America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand...etc.

[@philipm06]

Now we invade Spain every year, drink your wine and fornicate on your beaches.

[@zacha4812]

@@northmeister agreed

[@政斌-x8k]

And then.. *Germany joined the game*

[@gothelvis3541]

Then shortly left saying sorry guys please have mercy lol

[@justinoppermann3997]

Russia did. Without them Germany would have kicjed Englands ass.

[@lewstone5430]

@Grimmy 777 Lol!

[@bingbop9300]

The map at the start of the video looked weird

[@Cat-bg2ge]

What American's probably know about Britain, that we were British. That we fought two war's with the British to get this land. That we celebrate that fact every July 4th with firework's. Alot of our parent's, one or the other, are British. My british mother and my scottish father were WW2 parent's of " baby boomer's. The British had a simikar baby boom in their long time occupied country if India. India's population grew from one hundred million to 500 hundred million as a result of that occupation.

[@juanpablosanchezaveleyra6454]

What map is that at 2:12?

[@leonardorodriguez8538]

From the largest empire to a nation that needs a loicense for a teaspoon

[@kudim3185]

Are Spanish people always this pathetic...

[@philipm06]

Are you from Birmingham?

[@vigolivenca]

Maybe the Anglo-Portuguese aliance has also a big importance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance

[@Vinicius9515]

Since Portugal is the First ultramarine Empire It helped

[@evacslived5028]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@nicolasclermont893]

The British were extremely based

[@keepthefaith9805]

It's because of their respect of custom

[@fainitesbarley2245]

Most of it arose from an endless struggle against the Roman Catholic Church and then France. The options for the colonies wasn’t the British Empire or freedom. It was the British Empire or the French Empire. Germany started too late. The Age of Empires was on its last legs by the time they got going. Russia was the largest contiguous land empire by far - in the USSR too. The Ottoman Empire was a real biggy too and was larger for longer than the BE. All gone now. Different age.

[@rocekth]

What about the Mongols? BE controlled a third of the world if you count all its territory at once

[@josepheaton3829]

Fainites Barley are you an idiot? Ottomans didn't conquer nearly as much land as the British. And the Mongols owned 500,000 square miles less than Britain. Accept the fact that Britain had the biggest empire.

[@northmeister]

America it was Freedom.

[@raulcastro6545]

How Britain ruled southwark only now ja!

[@rileybruce6746]

In technicality the sun had set every 24 hours

[@sleepingstate1978]

I dont think you understand what the sun setting is.

[@rileybruce6746]

sleepingstate1978 the sun setting is when our side of the earth becomes unable to see the sun

[@sleepingstate1978]

@@rileybruce6746 very good. Maybe next you could say the earth spins completely every 24 hours. It still wouldn't make the sun set on an empire if it had land spread far enough apart.

[@TRD315]

7:45 Cultural advancements too.

[@Anti-HyperLink]

Did they though?

[@thevoiceless8567]

Yes...

[@bob_0146]

Pretty much

[@joanatan5026]

The biblical Egyptians, Babylonians, English, Chinese triad secret society, American freemason, Commonwealth mentality people. They are a single gang still very much operating today as a 'team'.

[@kevinheath7588]

It's cos we have the best fighting men and a warrior culture.

[@imprivsoaugustinei1910]

They miss the subject of sacral kings influence from heaven! LOL

[@joanatan5026]

The Biblical Mother of Babylon in Revelation, has to have enough global clout so she must be somewhere in the British empire. A woman in British intelligence M15 or a big shot 'big sister' in Hong Kong or someone very powerful with hotline to Mindef in Singapore? Something that goes back far enough in biblical history or have enough global reach.

[@Cat-bg2ge]

Britain, a proud puppy. But pride goeth before a fall, love God 😂

[@TeethToothman]

❤❤❤

[@misillibertario3894]

Bad weather make bad people. I don't imagine two fellas from a tropical country telling to each other: "Hey yo, we gotta invade other islands" -"That's cool bro but let me finish my coco first.

[@bigmac1516]

what?

[@squidhatonaglobe4030]

Spain has nice weather don't they?

[@clay119]

Ummm statically people with weather like britan and Ireland tend to be more happy

[@kang1983]

we failed so much too

[@stansearcheslife6363]

*laughs In dutch*

[@12stem.b-obenita]

no dutch never had colonies they just steal ports he who controls the ports controls the Trade and that's how the Dutch East Company was born

[@stansearcheslife6363]

@@12stem.b-obenita i am Dutch myself and thats not what happend we discovered australia south africa and indonesia new York and more we first called them settlements and we changed them into colonies also Sri lanka and parts of India where discovered by us we also started discovering china with taiwan *and hey we have weed too*

[@Coys319]

Wario says random stuff You are correct, as a Brit you guys were underrated.

[@stansearcheslife6363]

@@Coys319 we did so much and everyone thinks it never happend

[@joanatan5026]

The Americans and British are related. Their British cousins, think the Americans like to call them.

[@gilgabro420]

I'm German and I have to say that this bothers me... guess that's in my genes I want to take over some shit! Any Americans here? **swetting profoundly**

[@Cat-bg2ge]

Britush like to "control" the narrative : and leave out all the sordid detail's 😂

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Murdering people, stealing there stuff, then somehow making them fight someone else

[@kudim3185]

it's been done fore centuries, the brits didn't invent the idea, they just copied the strong before them.

[@philipm06]

Shhhsh - don't tell anyone.

[@clay119]

Go away commie

[@lunchingtangpua2415]

How british stop hitler from taking it stuff

[@lewstone5430]

Answer: America.

[@stingy8029]

@@lewstone5430 nah

[@lewstone5430]

@@stingy8029 just say 'thank you' and be on your way. *MURICA!*

[@stingy8029]

@@lewstone5430 Alan turning broke German enigma codes general Montgomery fought the Nazis and won, pushed them out of Africa unlikely win there, battle of Britain which Churchill said without he said this speech kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGrEno1ugsiieKM started the invasion on Italy (after Germany took over) sent up military entrance to France with a American/British/Canadian invasion bombed German cities of Dresden (also with the battle of Britain USA was also worried over it) USA was a great help in ww2 even Churchill said he also said this about FDR death before the end of ww2 “It is cruel that he will not see the Victory which he did so much to achieve.”

[@lewstone5430]

@@stingy8029 yes, I'm aware. I focused on military history at the military college from which I graduated. I should've typed "sarcasm" in parenthesis in my first post before you went through all of this trouble. My bad. However, don't forget that the American 5th Army under Mark Clark pushed the Nazi's up the Italian peninsula into the Alps and that Americans helped Montgomery in North Africa, along with all of the other allies.

[@iilluminumooconfirmed1676]

We were once the invaders, now we are the invaded.

[@tomblack4634]

I never get these points of views what did anyone in Britain ever do? Become liberal?

[@bronze_cookie8333]

Just Getting By lol 🤣 we are completely free now. Out of the European Union for good 😋

[@iilluminumooconfirmed1676]

@@tomblack4634 It refers to the increasing immigration rates.

[@queenofspades3091]

You didn't mention the british commonwealth

[@philipm06]

When you can spell it, we'll mention it.

[@queenofspades3091]

@@philipm06 fixed

[@tosukamary2121]

These is the real list of powerfull empires. 1. Rome From 753bc to 1453. 2206 years of glory. Unmatchable. 2. Persia 3. Holy roman empire 4. Mongols 5. Ottomans 6. British COLONIAL ( poor africans and empty countries. 7.French colonials 8. Spanish. Go to study history

[@stingy8029]

empty countries? britain is the strongest empire ever to exist controlled 400 million people and ruled the sea and land you need to study history also rome was very weak

[@JJaqn05]

The British Empire was more powerful than every empire you listed there

[@Vinicius9515]

@@JJaqn05 No...

[@Vinicius9515]

Portugal?

[@JJaqn05]

@@Vinicius9515 Search it up on google and it will say the British empire was the largest and most powerful you idiot. Stop wasting my time

[@mojoluginsland708]

Invader,totally a shameful thing.

[@tomblack4634]

Why do you care?

[@squidhatonaglobe4030]

@@tomblack4634 why should anyone care about anything?

[@tomblack4634]

Exactly.

[@squidhatonaglobe4030]

@@tomblack4634 ikr

[@ralphbernhard1757]

London went to war on the continent multiple times, by own admission, to "balance powers" on the continent... London's standpoint, *by own admission:* "The equilibrium established by such a grouping of forces is technically known as the balance of power, and it has become almost an historical truism to identify England’s secular policy with the maintenance of this balance by throwing her weight now in this scale and now in that, but ever on the side, opposed to the political dictatorship of the strongest single, State or group at a given time." Primary source material: [Memorandum_on_the_Present_State_of_British_Relations_with_France_and_Germany] *In a nutshell = the strongest side is the default rival in peace, and the default enemy in war.* And so the London lords played their "balancing games". From: The Complete Yes Minister: *"Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least five hundred years - to create a disunited Europe.* *How absolutely funny...* They gave their diplomatic worst, were proud if it, and millions of young men from the Empire paid the price. Huddled in muddy trenches, getting their heads blown off, or drowning like rats on the seven seas. That's what you get if you play follow the leader, when these leaders play *"divide and rule"* with the continent, for own gain. Millions dead. Millions mutilated. Too bad. So sad. Price tag for these stupid "games"? *A ruined British Empire.* Good riddance. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They "hopped on the scale" and they "hopped" their way into extinction...

[@mylesn5550]

Madness

[@fireballdude7368]

Not at all America is stronger.

[@stingy8029]

it is now Britain fell off because they paid for the abolition of slavery and both world wars and britian is the strongest country ever to exist due to empire america strongest native power ever

[@JJaqn05]

Now it is but it wasn't before

[@kamalpreetsingh1686]

America Empire would also fall because it's not strong like British ,China is growing superpower of the world.....

[@Vinicius9515]

USA is not an empire

[@michamalinowski4191]

European imperialism

[@laszlokiss483]

Africans and Arabs had imperialistic dreams but we're defeated and thus so failed had the whole of Europe been conquered or colonized I doubt we would hear the same arguments we do today brown people are just bitter they lost rule by conquest was an accepted way of rule in those times everyone agreed upon this as they all wanted to expand their territories were the only generation bitching about all this making it something it never was

[@B1345-q2s]

Everyone else is just salty they got fucked

[@thechurchofsolange58]

@No Name So well said 😂

[@skullcrucher45]

@@B1345-q2s dude british empire and most other empires were fighting natives... not something to be proud of. Good thing the uk is largely not very important now a days. Also say hello to the queen for me

[@B1345-q2s]

@@skullcrucher45 yeah like I said, natives that were completely backwards for the time and are now to this day salty they got beaten and dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age, say hello to all the modern appliances you used Spurred on by western technological innovation

[@fireballdude7368]

No

[@rocekth]

11 Americans disliked

[@franknwogu4911]

I'd argue with the internet the USA's influence outmatch Britains.

[@jessegallego7936]

We would be better off talking German.

[@josepheaton3829]

Salty?

[@bijimon7850]

Yet your hear speaking English?

[@philipm06]

But no one would understand you.

[@lasalle1042]

France is way better

[@lewstone5430]

. . . at making desserts! Thanks France!

[@lasalle1042]

@@lewstone5430 Je t'aime bien toi x)

[@philipm06]

The doctor will see you now.

[@lewstone5430]

Merci!

[@Vinicius9515]

Portugal is way better

[@joanatan5026]

Think the English are descendants of Lot (Abraham's nephew) and Esau (Abraham's grandson) which explains why they are so smart.

[@sandrider7868]

A

[@beastieman4207]

until the us replace them

[@osvaldocuriel3229]

Matt Maynard all drains lead to the ocean

[@sp4rtavus244]

Joel Hernandez Never, we wouldnt let you yanks do that.

[@samh3074]

Clem Cornpone He means as the top world power. Calm down

[@brilliantreckoner736]

US speak English 😆

[@dejabu24]

in my opinion the reason is because of jealousy among europeans , the british exploited that very well , then play the divide and conquer strategy and use Russia as their last resource they did it against napoleon and Hitler ,thats why they never try to conquer europe , and the other reason is the short term vision of some european leaders , like the french humiliated the prussians then the prussians humiliated the french and then they all got humiliated in WW1 and 2 , and at exception the last world conflict the british encourage that to consolidated their position , ultimately the british prefered to pass the torch to a non european power (like the US and the soviet union ) instated of sharing the world and allowing the raising of a united european power that would've been great for the british empire and for the rest of europe

[@dejabu24]

@Just Getting By the history of any euopean power was never smooth , that wasn't my point , but most of the big players had their chance to shine , and they did it , they did what nature commands meaning for the stronger to take the lead of the continent , Westphalia , Vienna , and Versailles ( or Yalta) ,all failures attempt to unified europe under one power , britian never try to do that even if they also knew that their global ambitions(being a sea power) depended primarily on a continent that was more or less in line with their strategy(besides the economic reason like trade ) , they never try to conquer europe militarly knowing that and they were smart because they would've probably failed like the rest (who knows) , instead of that they decided to support always the balance of power or status to preventing an hegemonic power to rise but by doing that , they were creating new rising powers and keeping that antagonism not only between britain and the continent but also between some major and former major players in the continent (like france and germany ), this kept europe in a long term state of war and forced the british empire to intervene every time which exhausted the british empire and ultimately ended on its collapsed but not only their but also the old euroepan powers , also it prevented europe to look out for external competitors like the US or Russia (Soviet union) which were in a much better position that any individual european power to take on the british empire which they ultimately did

[@dejabu24]

@Just Getting By some times euroepan powers started sometimes the british them self , but because they(continental european powers) were pursuing continental hegemony ( in the case of britain global hegemony ) , that was the natural développement of a strong successful nation to expand , but the british try to prevent that by favoring the balance of power but in order to do that they had to destroy a potential hegemonic power which created a vacum which will be fill up by a new rising power which was a former british allied(the case of Prussia) but because of that dynamic turn itself into an enemy , the result of that strategy(that was against nature) in the long term was WW1 and WW2 which end up by destroying the british empire and the other european powers , at that point the sicle was stop, something that was supposed to keep peace actually created that constant state of conflicts , we should be that naive , no smaller country have self determination thats a nonsense , on trade they were forced to commerce from other places out of europe , which meant going through the sea and guess who controls the maritimes shipping routes , the balance of power was used to keep europe divided so the british would be able to use their soft power , economic and financial power to influence the continental powers , you can have self determination only by force the rest is just pure rhetoric. well the US imposed the monroe doctrine on the rest of the european powers and they made treating including britain like in 1904 when Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed the right of the US to exercise an "international police power" , I mean the british empire had declared war on other european powers for much less than that , and in the case of the US we are talking about global power meaning british real playground , the reason why the british empire was never able to united the rest of the european powers to counter the rising of the US was simply because of their balance of power strategy , they were too busy fighting each other , and besides that some economic and financial interests regarding the russians well they were rivals to the americans because britain was not even taken into account as a global power after WW2 , because of the reason I gave above

[@dejabu24]

Just Getting By I never said otherwise, but with an hegemonic power on the continent those wars would’ve stop earlier , balance of power kept that going over and over for at least 3 more centuries , because the only two way to stop it , achieving continental hegemony or the destruction of all powers so there is no potential hegemonic power and that happened in 1945 except that by doing that you are favoring external competitors and potential enemies like the US and the Soviet Union (Russia ), the British and the rest of the old European powers never understood , that’s the real failure Britain because they were the only state that try to keep it going as a foreign policy

[@dejabu24]

@Just Getting By fair enough , we are both students of history