How did such a small country manage to get a hold of and maintain such a large amount of land?
How did such a small country manage to get a hold of and maintain such a large amount of land?
Camden Stewart
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Josiah Miller
How did such a small virus manage to get a hold on and spread through such a large host?
Kayden Harris
Divine intervention
Matthew Richardson
White privilege
Grayson Price
Boats.
Ryan Parker
Perfidy, treachery, dishonourable intervention
Connor Miller
Ruthlessness and diplomacy
Charles Foster
The conquest of Ireland provided them the model for sea based empire, that and they were willing to colonize more marginal areas like Canada which greatly boosts their total mileage.
Charles Morgan
They were able to do it because god loves the british.
Isaac Davis
>cannons vs naked people with sticks
>claim empty lands
>muh largest empire
Gabriel Adams
checked
Austin Peterson
>and maintain
Most of these lands were conquered after 1880 and gave up before 1965
Aaron Ramirez
In all seriousness, the insular nature of Britain is what helped them become and remain a superpower through the second millenium
Tyler James
>through the second millenium
But Britain was only a superpower (and even that is debatable) between 1860 and 1914
Brayden Hill
Except for india, britain had more population than all the natives of its colonies combined, so no, it wasnt a small country
Michael Moore
and that's after ALL the emigration
Luke Nelson
>How did such a small country manage to get a hold of and maintain such a large amount of land?
Once they have more land, they cease being a "small country."
Owen Smith
Money.
Justin Lewis
>But Britain was only a superpower (and even that is debatable) between 1860 and 1914
The actual term 'superpower' was first used during WW2 to refer directly to the USA, UK and USSR, all of whom were far more economically influential than any other nations had ever been, and were capable of massive global power projection (or in the USSR's case, just being fucking gigantic).
>en.wikipedia.org
The UK lost its superpower status in the post-war years between 1947 (Indian independence) and 1956 (Suez crisis).
Obviously the UK was the preeminent great power in the century preceding WW2, and could be described as a superpower in the lead-up to WW1 and the inter-war years.
Adrian Reyes
they had a privileged starting point in their lonesome rock.
in my wet dreams i imagine perfidious albion connected with europe by an
isthmus
Luke Rogers
Who had more integrity than us? Who showed greater magnanimity? Look at the exile we gave Napoleon! Consider that we accepted his surrender again. Would he have done the same?
Literally the most compassionate world power in human history. Too compassionate.
I love that the lesser races must contrive these lies to compensate for their ancestral inadequacies.
kek, all horseshit though. I can tell form the devilish digits.
Christopher Hughes
gun beats spear.
-First country to industrialise
-global financial centre
-powerful navy
Easton Ward
Role-playing kills boards