They used to say that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." Click on the flag above to see a map that shows what that phrase means. In short Great Britain, at one point, had colonies all over the world, from the Americas to Africa to the Far East. It's hard to believe that as the promotion of democracy was starting to build in England during the 19th and 20th Centuries Great Britain was taking democracy away from other people through colonization. The question you need to answer is why did Great Britain/England need so many colonies? Did they want colonies for the prestige? Was there something that they needed from the colonies?Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The British Empire
They used to say that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." Click on the flag above to see a map that shows what that phrase means. In short Great Britain, at one point, had colonies all over the world, from the Americas to Africa to the Far East. It's hard to believe that as the promotion of democracy was starting to build in England during the 19th and 20th Centuries Great Britain was taking democracy away from other people through colonization. The question you need to answer is why did Great Britain/England need so many colonies? Did they want colonies for the prestige? Was there something that they needed from the colonies?
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they needed so many people so they could worck on there aremy and they could focous on one thing. so if they went into a wr they would be prepared.
Great Britian wanted colomies all over the world probably for themselves to have bigger, stronger armies. Also to have more natural resources that they dont have in their own little country. i call this mouching. Britian was mouching off of other colonies for natural resources.
Jordan
Great Britain and France had so many conlines because they where just so little places. They over took conlines because the need more supplies and land so that they can become bigger countires.
~Marco
Great britain needed so many colonies so they could have new materials and they could also expand there army and navy.
Nick
Great Britain needed so many colinies because they would be able to build a bigger army and then they would be powerful
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