How did the British empire become

As we all know, the Brtish was used to be called “the sun-never-setting empire”.When the British Empire was at its height in the early 1900s, it included over 20 persent of the world's land area and more than 400 million people - the single largest empire in the history of the world since time began. The saying that the \"sun never set on the British Empire\" was very close to the truth: because of its geographic spread, some territory, somewhere, was always in the daylight hours. But ,how the British get this remarkable achievement?

From the mid-15th century, Britain entered the primitive accumulation stage of capitalism. The British monarch is the history of the famous Queen Elizabeth. Under her leadership, the United Kingdom to establish the hegemony of the sea.

Mid-17th century English bourgeois revolution erupted. It cleared the way for the rapid development of British capitalism.

The late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution took place, and Britain became the first capital of righteous righteousness countries. In the 19th century, Britain was entering a \"golden ageo become the world's most advanced indusitrialized countries. Industrial development requires a vast market and source of raw materials, so it stepped up its aggression around the world, a large number of plundered the wealth of other countries. 1914, the British possession of the colony than in their home 140 times, is the world's largest colonial powers and their overseas colonies throughout Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Australia, and it is known as \"the sun-never-setting Empire\".

The british has been able to occupy the largest colony, not only because it is the world's richest countries, but also because the world's strongest naval power. The British colonial plunder a variety of means, which relied on its strong economic strength, to buy over the territory of the backward nations at a cheap price, or conduct economic penetration, or adopt the method of lending political and economic control of the weaker countries that do notcountries are willing to open the business door is open the closed door the door of the country, and then control the economic lifeline of these countries . On the basis of military occupation. In some places is directly sent the Navy to defeat a weak country, forcibly accounted for himself.

In short, the British went through a fire and blood-pavedroad to become “the sun-never-setting empire”.Britain's wealth is built entirely on the basis of the plunder of the colonial peoples sweat. But, this is not the only reasan. The Britain’s bourgeois revolution and the industrial revolution also contribute to the formation of “the sun-never-setting empire”.

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