@@rob12x56 according to encyclopedia británica (I just looked it up), the british were subjugated to pay tributary payments to the Afghans after the second Anglo-Afghan war. wow I didn't know the british were so much humiliated by Afghan farmers
@eobardthawne6903 I feel like a lot of the native tribes still in America would take offence to that statement. They are still there, just greatly reduced in number
@@talenrothwell3407 ofcourse some foreigner grabbed their land and have been reducing their numbers and if someone points out the fact, they will take offense? Lmao what
Hong Kong was leased by the Chinese to the British for 100 years, so technically, it wasn't part of the Emprire, although it was a very profitable part.
@@saldana7395 you can’t see the back side of the moon lol. The entire spherical moon has the same land surface area as the British empire, so what you can see is half of that
People forget that the Raj wasn't one massive unified block. Almost half of it was still run as The Princly States which held a lot of control but just with ultimate loyalty to Britain.
It was basically a collection of local Indian kingdoms, offering their allegiance to the British Crown, after the British East India company was removed as its highest authority by said Crown.
@@savioblancthat's why the empire lasted so long. By giving some amount of local control each part of the empire could react to situations quickly and had less reason to push for independence.
@@KartikeyaMishra-s9c oh absolutely! Hence why they considered themselves Emperors of India - Basically, the King of the Kings of India. Would have been interesting had the princely kingdoms been kept intact and asked to pay allegiance to the Republic of India after 1950. The Indian Princely Kingdoms were some of the richest kingdoms in the world under British suzrenity. Had they continued under the Indian Republic, there could have been a healthy competition between the various kingdoms in a more peaceful manner. Oh well... who knows. India decided a centralized government was the better deal.
@@GromDarkwater actually the British Crown's control of India didn't even last a 100 years. But had there been no WW1 and WW2, who knows? They could have lasted a lot longer. But the world was not the world of centuries past.
Most of Europe was burnt coal, too... at least India's economy doubled under the British, the population exploded, and you got rid of both the European and Muslim colonizers
@@CaptainTodger69 “India’s economy doubled during the British”. You, my man, need to get yourself checked asap. Can be some serious brain damage right there.
At some point the British even reached Hawai’i during the 18th century, and occupied it during the 19th, which is why our flag has the Union Jack in it
@@werdburb7535 because it was not seen as a strategic necessity for British imperial ambitions compared to other territories. The British government was more focused on consolidating control over territories that offered greater economic benefits or strategic military advantages.
@@XXXTENTAClON227 I never claimed they can’t, if that were the case then all of history would be wildly different. What I meant in my original comment was to point out that the Union Jack in Hawaii’s flag is not- as may be implied by its presence- a statement of loyalty to Britain. Edit: I am not referring to loyalty as *equal* friendship, but rather as a subject accepting its position.
@@werdburb7535 you still might be wrong, it was the Hawaiian king who accepted ceding the territory as a whole to Britain but the British government didn’t want it, in fact they were strangely inconsistent (for example they’d claim areas which their own captains never claimed, but refuse to enforce claims already made by their captains)
And to be honest Hindustan would still be in Muslim hands without the British , India owes everything to the Brits buy hey don't let facts get in the way of Bias.
@@harshthemonkranyal8713 marathas were brutally defeated by the ahmed shah duranni which lead to weakeing of them ...i would say sikh had a better chance of conquering north ...marthas in west and mughals and islam rule in east and some part of central india including mysore,hydrabad and all india would't have unified at allll
What an important little place Malta always was. The French under Napoleon surrendered Malta to The British in 1800. Malta gained Independence in 1964, year of The Dragon 🐲. British Military let Malta go in 1979.
The luck of Britain was that it was an isolated island country in the north of Europe. This gave them great opportunities to improve themselves and stay on the defensive. For example, if it had been located between Europe and Persian, like the Ottomans, I'm sure it wouldn't have grown up this way.
@@Mark_Bickertonireland was part of the uk after being colonised and sweden and norway lack of people because of gepgraphy Edit: sweden was around 1800 very strong and colonised finland but had to fight against russia
They could have built a railway from the Cape, across large swathes of savannah, through tropical forests and burning deserts to Cairo and still be in the same area of influence.
@@jake5773 that was in British East Africa at the time. When the Uganda railway was being built through present day Kenya to connect inland landlocked Uganda to the coast via Mombasa. At one stage when construction was ongoing around the Tsavo River area (currently a big national game park) Indian & African workers were hunted at night by lions. Lt. Col. John Patterson later shot & killed 2 of those lions & their preserved bodies are on display at a museum in Chicago.
@BettySwollocks157 The point made that any period of brutal invasion and colonisation should be be deemed "impressive". But yes interesting thing is that Hitler did and looked to the British Empire as a model for his greater German reich. And yes the British Empire was responsible for the deaths of millions of people all over the world, not forgetting that it was the major partner within the Transatlantic Slave trade for most of that period. A position which remained unrivalled until the beginning of the end of slavery in the early 1800s. With the abolition of slavery first being instigated by Denmark and not Britain btw
@Adaman368 Still different to the Nazis, the British Empire's doctrine was to establish power/influence in their colonies, whereas the Nazis doctrine was two-fold - to conquer living space in Europe and to wipe out the Jewish people living in Europe. The British Empire may have killed people to establish control in different regions, but they didn't set out to annihilate populations simply because they didn't like them.
But all of that is now gone. But yes English language remains the biggest legacy of the British Empire but anyways a common language would have been needed. If not English something else would have become international may be French, may be Spanish.
Australia gained independence in 1901, it’s still part of the commonwealth today so if that’s what it mean to be part of the empire technically it would still be in the empire
@@dakota5921 that's not strictly true. The Australia ACT simply ratified the UK statutes that had been passed in the 30's. All it actually did was formalise the ACT of the UK parliament from 50 years earlier. Australia had its own diplomats, as well as foreign and defence policies, for decades before the 80's. The dismissal in the early 70's showed this independence to be absolute, as the crown would not become involved in the greatest political crisis in Australian history.
Fun fact: The area now known as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was influenced by British presence primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries, though it was never formally a colony of the British Empire. The British entered the region to protect trade routes to India and to control piracy in the Persian Gulf. 1. 1820 - The General Maritime Treaty: After a series of conflicts with local tribes (known then as the “Pirate Coast” due to piracy that affected British shipping routes), the British signed a treaty with several local rulers to suppress piracy and maintain peace in the region. This established a degree of British oversight. 2. 1853 - The Perpetual Maritime Truce: The British signed another treaty with the coastal sheikhs, establishing a “Perpetual Maritime Truce,” giving Britain authority over the Trucial States’ (the former name of the UAE) external affairs in exchange for protection against foreign threats. The area became informally known as the Trucial States after this agreement. 3. 1892 - Exclusive Agreements: British influence increased when they signed “Exclusive Agreements” with the rulers of the Trucial States, promising to protect them from external threats in exchange for exclusive rights over foreign relations. This gave the British significant control over the region without formal colonization. 4. 1971 - End of British Protection and Formation of the UAE: Britain announced its withdrawal from the Persian Gulf in 1968, effective by 1971. On December 2, 1971, the Trucial States united to form the United Arab Emirates. So, while the UAE was never fully “conquered” or colonized, British control over its foreign relations and security effectively made the Trucial States a British protectorate from the 19th century until 1971.
Obviously you do not know history , king george came from Germany,, the brittish royal are English born but German blood , , nazi is not German ,they are nationist nazi , to stop the royal of communist one world order , Germany empire was allied with the brittish royals pirates and the rest of their corporations policies French royals , American democrats, Australia new zealand Canada , is communist of their terriosm , but the fact is the brittish royals are fake they just gang a fake family lost their royalty before the war , should watch king speech ,
They were unified, they were the Holy Roman Empire. They were never close to the level of the British, because they were weak militarily, and obsessed with religion.
@@zacmumblethunder7466Okay Mr Pedantic. They mean its a tiny country, that happens to be an island, not so much the island being small to other islands.
That was bharatvarsh before invasion of British and the word British raj (raj means rule that means every land countries ruled by British not just bharat
Queen Victoria First Empress of 'India' would disagree. Just because it's different in name doesn't makes it different. Example Vichy France, Weimar Republic, Soviet Union (Russian Empire of Communism).
@@A_man_of_culture_25 Before the arrival of Europeans in India, the Mughals ruled. They were ruler’s descended from mongol Turkic people, outsiders that brought further Islamic influence to India. India was supposedly under Mughal hegemony but the Mughals lacked naval strength. Those following Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism also didn’t particularly enjoy Islamic domination. They had their own rulers and kingdoms, rulers even within the Mughal and later Hindu Maratha empires enjoyed massive autonomy.
@CCC3dagoat I thought it was higher? Or at least the number of FLAGS (not countries) with the Union Jack in it is like 27 different flags. Lots got rid of it after independence (like the South African flag) but lots have kept them too, but number of flags currently used with the UJ in them is much higher than just 4.
I remember reading "sailing alone around the world" which is the true story of a circumnavigation done in the 1890s. The vast majority of stops the author made were in British territory. Probably would have been much harder to pull off without guaranteed access to English speakers for most of the way.
Talking about Joshua Slocum? Mm, born Canadian, naturalized American. ( My vivid memory from his book was the fact that he took a lot of sharp roof tacks, and in the area of Patagonia, every night when he anchored to sleep, he'd scatter the tacks all over the deck of his sailboat, to poke the feet of the local indigenous when they snuck aboard to try to rob Slocum, if not try to kill him. Then every morning he gathered up the nails.)
@galerad7254 yeah Josh Slocum. Think they were carpet tacks, like thin boards with small nails sticking up from them to hold the edge of a carpet in place.
@@sushantkumar9202 Britishers that's a new one bro lol... We're just called the British (from people who don't live here ) here we're either English, Scottish, Welsh ... Northan Ireland is just part of the UK (ridiculous I don't know why our government didn't just let Ireland rule itself, I know the northan Irish are full of people who emigrated from Scotland and England when English kings (Norman's really) tried to breed the Irish out and the north is prodestant and the rest of the country catholic....which is mental as modern DNA proved were pretty much the same people ...the Scots and Irish and Cornish who claim to be Gaelic were just influenced by Gaelic culture and a few Gaelic who settled but mostly the fashion of the time ....just like how they now know England wasn't invaded by Anglo Saxons just a few settled here and we picked up their culture... Basically the original British came from the Basque region in Spain ....DNA doesn't lie ) also a lot of Scandinavian blood from viking settlers, mostly the north of England... Anyway hope that's helped clear up on a basic level ... There's a lot more to it but my finger be sore by the time I've finished ... And it's no laughing matter a lot of people died in 'the troubles' including a pub full of regular people in my city Birmingham blown up by the IRA and the untold atrocities carried out in Ireland by parts of the British army
@@Salacious-Crumba lot of differences among yourselves but for other countries it is same for them. I mean we Indians have extreme differences of culture and language but still we are recognised as Indian from your perspective. So your explanation doesn't provide any conclusion. By the way you describe many things about u.k😅😅
@@jimhalpert0 I spent my time trying to explain but the Nobhead didn't appreciate it ... Basically like you said "Britishers isn't a word ...it's either British or the British... Oh well I tried bro
Where's Singapore man. It was probably the most successful port and gave the British more control over trade in the Malay Archipelago and Southeast Asia as a whole. My man Raffles' work was disregarded??😭
For some reason I had always thought the height of the British empire was in the early 1700s. Maybe because that was before the US had broken from Britain. And wow! 1919 was the height of its empire and it had 450 million people which was a fifth of the world population at the time? That's not even close to a fifth nowadays. China and India both have over 1 billion people each.
@@randomworld4662 To be considered a Superpower you must be able to influence other countries, nations, and international institutions due to military, economic, and cultural strength. Even during the bronze age Egypt did not have that power. It was considered a great power of the ancient world but it needed to be on good terms with many neighbors to achieve that power. Tin is rare and they didn't own the mines nor the trade routes nor did they have the men or logistic to control such things militarily or influentially.
And remember, the British rarely used their own troops to control the People in all those Colonies, they always hired locals of those Colonies as Police and Military personnel to subdue and control the People in all those Colonies. We like to think animals are so stupid when one lion comes, hundreds of animals run even though if all those animals worked together, they can defeat the lion, but that never happens. Similarly, if all the People in those colonies worked together, the British would never have been able to Colonize such large portion of the World, the British knew how to play divide and rule very well. Even border conflicts that exist today in places like India-Pakistan in Kashmir, Israel-Palestine, are because of the British.
The middle East was a system of protectorates, not directly controlled by Britain. Similar for half of India. By the time the British stepped foot on some of the African designated lands, Australia and Canada were independent. It never was as uniform and big as depicted on this map. It was empty lands, protectorates and a few populated Indian territories.
Pure cope 😂. The British carved up the Middle East after annihilating the ottomans with their reserves whilst fighting a war on three fronts. The British delineated both domestic and the foreign policies of Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Aden etc. trying to claim that’s not conquest but protectorates is hysterical cope 😂. If you can force the sons and fathers to be drafted to fight wars for you that’s conquest, hate to break it to you 😊
Corrections: In 1919, Australia and New Zealand were already independent. Britain did not take all of Togo and Cameroon. Brunei and Singapore were all colonies, so is Papua, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, etc.
Ireland was ( Nerver ) Britain. Britain is an island, when the British empire invaded and controlled Ireland, it was The kingdom of Great Britain and the ( Kingdom of Ireland) because Ireland is a separate Island.
Not sure why he showed The Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪☘💚 as well at the start. It's not in The UK 🇬🇧. He should have at least done it in a different colour or something. It's just England 🏴, Wales 🏴, Scotland 🏴 and Northern Ireland in the UK. And Britain is the landmass which includes England, Wales and Scotland.
@@finger3306 Yeah I didn't say British Isles, can you read? I said the land mass of BRITAIN. Idiot. The British Isles is a geographical term for the land mass of the islands of Britain and Ireland. But when people say Britain it means England, Scotland and Wales. The UK is them and also NI. Also, not sure why you think I'm a lad. And the graph doesn't have a caption saying WW1 so it's misleading for people who weren't educated on the subject. So they will see that and think all of both islands are the UK, which is incorrect. Also my dad is from Northern Ireland and my mum and the rest of us are from the Republic so I know what I'm talking about, thanks sweetie. In regards to using my brain, I'm university educated but I can see you need to work on your sentence structure so maybe study a bit. Also, why are you coming at a fellow Irish person standing up for Ireland in the comments? Won't be replying to you anymore. Buh-bye.
@@finger3306 Ok sweetie, not sure if you can read. Imagine 🤣. Did I say British Isles? No. I said the land mass of Britain. The British Isles is a geographical term for the islands of Ireland and Britain, the land masses. It is not a political term. Great Britain or Britain is the land mass / political term which includes England, Scotland, Wales, just like I said. Where as the UK includes those countries and Northern Ireland. Also, not sure why you think I'm a lad or why you're coming for a fellow Irish person sticking up for Ireland! And in regards to using my brain, I'm university educated and my dad is from NI and mum and rest of us from Republic so I know what I'm talking about. My dad grew up during the troubles. As for you, you might want to read a book, I can see your sentence structure is not great. Also, the picture of the two islands at the start does not have a caption saying WW1 actually. Not talking about after. But when he shows the map at the very start, there is nothing to say WW1 and the countires are not differentiated. Buh-bye. Slán, won't be responding again.
Because he said Palestine it was at the moment a mandate named Palestine you foolish brainwashed western being i say Palestine to am i now a hamas supporter you emotional kid i hate their crimes like i hate those idf scumbags
In India we saw jalian walabak. Who knows how many times they were made in so many years and how many countries. Still Buddha is living in so many countries by educating love and compassion
Mull, Lindisfarne, the Isle of White, the Shetland’s, the Orkneys, Anglesey, Uist etc beg to differ on that subject. Also so do about 40% of the people of Northern Ireland
@@Catgplays it would be embarrassing if they didnt ...... with 1.5 Billion people and the 7th biggest land mass ... If they grew one Turnip each it would be a wealthy country
I love how out of those 450 million people, us people born in Britain were no more British than the others. We were all subjects of the king... didn't matter that we were born here at all we all had equal status. Up until 1964, only then were we considered British foremost than anyone else.
The mongol empire was the Largest contiguous empire Meaning the largest big continuous chunk of land 9.7 million sq milies The British empire was many separate chunks. When added up are larger 13.7 million sq miles For reference the USA including Alaska is 3.5 million sq miles
@@ragmority 😆 how generous Did you hear the story of Haiti getting independence from France? The French sailed their navy over there and said "you can have your independence if you like- but you must compensate us for well over a century, or we can destroy you". Popr old Haiti got off to a really bad start thanks to the French
it was so large people in the comments are pointing out all the colonies you missed
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Random island in the middle of the ocean thousands of miles away from anywhere -
British empire - DIBS
It’s what happens when you base your entire personality on having lots of boats.
Ireland not in Britain
@@kreeger7DAMN RIGHT!
No navy--no Empire (and possibly no Britain itself, either).
@@premierfuncasino island ≠ Ireland.
@@premierfuncasino Except for that bit that is, of course...
Londonderry, and Belfast, etc
"The sun never set because even the god couldn't trust the English in the dark"
- Shashi Tharoor
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Typical loser comment 😂
True 😅
Greedy Brits
British in the dark . Thank you.
How large was the British Empire?
Yes
Perfectly summed up 😂
Afghanistan:
aight mofa, that's your final destination
British: ok sorry I'm going back
How big a looter was the British bullsh*t empire .
Yes 😂😂
@@SafaM-ne8zm cough* 2nd Anglo afgan war cough
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@@rob12x56 according to encyclopedia británica (I just looked it up), the british were subjugated to pay tributary payments to the Afghans after the second Anglo-Afghan war. wow I didn't know the british were so much humiliated by Afghan farmers
USA is like "yeah that's my dad"
Yeah and the mother (Native Americans) have disappeared 😢
@@eobardthawne6903 there is no such thing as native Americans UK own usa
@eobardthawne6903 I feel like a lot of the native tribes still in America would take offence to that statement. They are still there, just greatly reduced in number
@@talenrothwell3407 ofcourse some foreigner grabbed their land and have been reducing their numbers and if someone points out the fact, they will take offense? Lmao what
@eobardthawne6903 no they would take offence to some saying they have disappeared
Churchill :- "Hitler wants to invade the world!"
Meanwhile Britain :-
Most hypocrite person to exit :- Churchill
@SHU-be2lr Very much so.
he was a bonafide, certified genocidal maniac
Churchill was a goddamn monster.
Churchill k*lled millions of indians by famine because of taking all food resources for ww2 brits soilders. He even laughed about it
Hong Kong: Am I a joke to you?
Compared to like 20 percent of the worlds land it is lol
@@Littlemilkjug533 26%+* Though they should've included it anyways for comprehensiveness.
Hi
Hong Kong was leased by the Chinese to the British for 100 years, so technically, it wasn't part of the Emprire, although it was a very profitable part.
Informal empire
Fun fact: if you ever go outside and look up at a full moon, you are looking at exactly HALF of the land surface area contained in the British empire
Half?
@@saldana7395 you can’t see the back side of the moon lol.
The entire spherical moon has the same land surface area as the British empire, so what you can see is half of that
Dang
Actually, The british empire at its maximum point of territorial height would cover nearly 97% of the moon
Ye India carried kiddo
Fun fact: the British empires land was about 99.8% of the moons land area
Illegally capture too say largest capture and looter
@@StudyGlobal-d1b huh
I disagree
@@A-n-k-i-t493 well the moon is just about a quarter of the Earths size and the British Empire is also about a quarter of earths land mass
@@corrp. Yeah in surface area but not mass XD
You missed Jordan
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And he forgot guinea
Also UAE, Hong Kong kong and Eastern USA
@@LadySenmukthey didnt control the eastern us at that time....
People forget that the Raj wasn't one massive unified block. Almost half of it was still run as The Princly States which held a lot of control but just with ultimate loyalty to Britain.
It was basically a collection of local Indian kingdoms, offering their allegiance to the British Crown, after the British East India company was removed as its highest authority by said Crown.
@@savioblancbut the British still extracted tax,operated courts and the army, controlled trade, education and media.
@@savioblancthat's why the empire lasted so long. By giving some amount of local control each part of the empire could react to situations quickly and had less reason to push for independence.
@@KartikeyaMishra-s9c oh absolutely! Hence why they considered themselves Emperors of India - Basically, the King of the Kings of India.
Would have been interesting had the princely kingdoms been kept intact and asked to pay allegiance to the Republic of India after 1950.
The Indian Princely Kingdoms were some of the richest kingdoms in the world under British suzrenity.
Had they continued under the Indian Republic, there could have been a healthy competition between the various kingdoms in a more peaceful manner.
Oh well... who knows.
India decided a centralized government was the better deal.
@@GromDarkwater actually the British Crown's control of India didn't even last a 100 years. But had there been no WW1 and WW2, who knows? They could have lasted a lot longer. But the world was not the world of centuries past.
The Jewel was left as pieces of burnt coal upon departure.
So true
Most of Europe was burnt coal, too... at least India's economy doubled under the British, the population exploded, and you got rid of both the European and Muslim colonizers
@@CaptainTodger69Bro just try, at least once, to educate yourself. It's not that hard I promise.
@@CaptainTodger69 “India’s economy doubled during the British”. You, my man, need to get yourself checked asap. Can be some serious brain damage right there.
80 years on India and pakistan politicians still blaming Britain for their own governing inadequacies
At some point the British even reached Hawai’i during the 18th century, and occupied it during the 19th, which is why our flag has the Union Jack in it
They reached it, yeah, but they didn’t colonize it or actually add it to the Empire
@@werdburb7535 because it was not seen as a strategic necessity for British imperial ambitions compared to other territories. The British government was more focused on consolidating control over territories that offered greater economic benefits or strategic military advantages.
@@werdburb7535 believe it or not, even imperial empires can have friends
@@XXXTENTAClON227 I never claimed they can’t, if that were the case then all of history would be wildly different. What I meant in my original comment was to point out that the Union Jack in Hawaii’s flag is not- as may be implied by its presence- a statement of loyalty to Britain.
Edit: I am not referring to loyalty as *equal* friendship, but rather as a subject accepting its position.
@@werdburb7535 you still might be wrong, it was the Hawaiian king who accepted ceding the territory as a whole to Britain but the British government didn’t want it, in fact they were strangely inconsistent (for example they’d claim areas which their own captains never claimed, but refuse to enforce claims already made by their captains)
"The sun never set on the British empire, because God wouldn't trust them in the dark" - Shashi Tharoor
Always the same old pajit logic, get good in wars then
And to be honest Hindustan would still be in Muslim hands without the British , India owes everything to the Brits buy hey don't let facts get in the way of Bias.
@@SuziQ499u need to just type maratha empire ..and maybe delete your comment..before you get educated
@@harshthemonkranyal8713 marathas were brutally defeated by the ahmed shah duranni which lead to weakeing of them ...i would say sikh had a better chance of conquering north ...marthas in west and mughals and islam rule in east and some part of central india including mysore,hydrabad and all
india would't have unified at allll
@@SuziQ499 I guess, but the mughals were settlers, they lived in the land not steal from it and ship all the riches out
Dhalta hai suraj dheere dheere dhalta hai dhal jaega.
Meaning:-
The sun is seting slowly slowly, it always sets and it will set.
Malta: missing a small archipelago in the Mediterranean?
Malta the indefatigable.
Don't be cross about it.
"Cross", get it?
Seriously, though, a brave island with a noble history.
What an important little place Malta always was. The French under Napoleon surrendered Malta to The British in 1800. Malta gained Independence in 1964, year of The Dragon 🐲. British Military let Malta go in 1979.
You missed many territories, not just the one’s you didn’t name, you just didn’t mark many on the map, like for example Esequibo, Hong Kong and Brunei
I think there was too much of Cameroon included as well. Didn't the british split Cameroon with the French after ww1?
@@bellywood7688 yes, amazonia went to the british and cameroon tot he french, good eye
He also forget the Sandwich Islands really important btw
Yeah Jordan as part of the mandate for palestine aswell.
@@flost8202 no, Jordan was a part a British protectorate almost completely separate from the mandate
Juet a minor correction, only a small portion of Cameroon was under British control, the vast majority was under French control.
I’d be very interested to see a series on the British Empire’s wars in Africa, like the Boer War, the Zulu Wars, the Mahdi War, etc.
I didn't know that Britain possesed the Spanish Empire
A few will understand
The one who said the joke ( Spain) :
The one who said the joke but louder ( UK) :
@@randombritishperson.wouldn’t that be Portugal?
Spanish loose hold of its overseas land after getting defeated by Napoleon
@@byonce3254 i would say after Trafalgar battle, spanish lost their navy power so they couldn't defend the oversea lands
When Epic History posts something, I watch it.
The luck of Britain was that it was an isolated island country in the north of Europe. This gave them great opportunities to improve themselves and stay on the defensive. For example, if it had been located between Europe and Persian, like the Ottomans, I'm sure it wouldn't have grown up this way.
So why didn't Ireland, or Sweden or Norway build such empires?
Not luck; the Brits are a warrior nation unlike the nations you mention where the men are weak.
@@Mark_Bickertonireland was part of the uk after being colonised and sweden and norway lack of people because of gepgraphy
Edit: sweden was around 1800 very strong and colonised finland but had to fight against russia
@@Mark_Bickerton yeah but:Portugal,Spain, France and Neterlands were . UK practicly inherited everything from the pervious MEGA collonial powers
@@Mark_BickertonTo put it simply aside from being conquered, the 2 lack the necessary resources and population
They could have built a railway from the Cape, across large swathes of savannah, through tropical forests and burning deserts to Cairo and still be in the same area of influence.
Yes it was called "cape to cario"
I heard they tried but had a lion problem. 🦁
@@jake5773 they handled it
@@jake5773 that was in British East Africa at the time. When the Uganda railway was being built through present day Kenya to connect inland landlocked Uganda to the coast via Mombasa. At one stage when construction was ongoing around the Tsavo River area (currently a big national game park) Indian & African workers were hunted at night by lions. Lt. Col. John Patterson later shot & killed 2 of those lions & their preserved bodies are on display at a museum in Chicago.
@@ciaranRealSuper strategic to have a line of land from the top to the bottom of Africa.
Proud on the great Britain. Love uk from India
Tf
Land: exists
Britain: I’ll take it🇬🇧
British 💩💩
Now Britain..: ola hu uber
And butchered more than 200 million people across the globe. Opium war in China, Bengal famine in India are just examples
@@Infinitecontinuumonly England mostly london
@@Infinitecontinuum😂😂😂
The British controlled a land area comparable to that of the land surface of the moon. Very impressive
Yeah I believe the nazis thought that too...
@Adaman368 Brother are you seriously comparing the British Empire to the Nazis? Where are you from exactly that has never done anything wrong?
@BettySwollocks157 The point made that any period of brutal invasion and colonisation should be be deemed "impressive". But yes interesting thing is that Hitler did and looked to the British Empire as a model for his greater German reich. And yes the British Empire was responsible for the deaths of millions of people all over the world, not forgetting that it was the major partner within the Transatlantic Slave trade for most of that period. A position which remained unrivalled until the beginning of the end of slavery in the early 1800s. With the abolition of slavery first being instigated by Denmark and not Britain btw
@Adaman368 Still different to the Nazis, the British Empire's doctrine was to establish power/influence in their colonies, whereas the Nazis doctrine was two-fold - to conquer living space in Europe and to wipe out the Jewish people living in Europe. The British Empire may have killed people to establish control in different regions, but they didn't set out to annihilate populations simply because they didn't like them.
But all of that is now gone. But yes English language remains the biggest legacy of the British Empire but anyways a common language would have been needed. If not English something else would have become international may be French, may be Spanish.
I love the British.
You missed Papua - the island of new guinea was divided between, the Dutch, German Empire and British Empire - later Governed by Australia
Australia gained independence in 1901, it’s still part of the commonwealth today so if that’s what it mean to be part of the empire technically it would still be in the empire
Canada is also still a constitutional monarchy shared with UK
Australia didn’t gain full independence until the 1980s
@@dakota5921 that's not strictly true.
The Australia ACT simply ratified the UK statutes that had been passed in the 30's.
All it actually did was formalise the ACT of the UK parliament from 50 years earlier.
Australia had its own diplomats, as well as foreign and defence policies, for decades before the 80's.
The dismissal in the early 70's showed this independence to be absolute, as the crown would not become involved in the greatest political crisis in Australian history.
@@dakota5921Australia is still not independent. It's a Chinese province. At least they're trying to make it so. 😂
@@dakota5921now it’s part of the United States
Fun fact: The area now known as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was influenced by British presence primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries, though it was never formally a colony of the British Empire. The British entered the region to protect trade routes to India and to control piracy in the Persian Gulf.
1. 1820 - The General Maritime Treaty: After a series of conflicts with local tribes (known then as the “Pirate Coast” due to piracy that affected British shipping routes), the British signed a treaty with several local rulers to suppress piracy and maintain peace in the region. This established a degree of British oversight.
2. 1853 - The Perpetual Maritime Truce: The British signed another treaty with the coastal sheikhs, establishing a “Perpetual Maritime Truce,” giving Britain authority over the Trucial States’ (the former name of the UAE) external affairs in exchange for protection against foreign threats. The area became informally known as the Trucial States after this agreement.
3. 1892 - Exclusive Agreements: British influence increased when they signed “Exclusive Agreements” with the rulers of the Trucial States, promising to protect them from external threats in exchange for exclusive rights over foreign relations. This gave the British significant control over the region without formal colonization.
4. 1971 - End of British Protection and Formation of the UAE: Britain announced its withdrawal from the Persian Gulf in 1968, effective by 1971. On December 2, 1971, the Trucial States united to form the United Arab Emirates.
So, while the UAE was never fully “conquered” or colonized, British control over its foreign relations and security effectively made the Trucial States a British protectorate from the 19th century until 1971.
You forgot Antarctica, where the ice cubes for Princess Anne's gin fizz come from.
Britian didn't set foot on anatrica until 1822
Lmao
@@ciaranRealr/whoosh
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@@ciaranRealThis is 1919 you 🤡
France still is the land where sun never sets
Hahaha 😁 🤣 👍 true
Mainly because the Brits couldn't be bothered with those bits.
@@gillie-monger3394 they js suck
@@romo3327 Agree. France does indeed suck.b
so is kiribati
and now they all are playing cricket with the British....
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Germany could have been a real contender for the British empire if they are unified atleast 200 years earlier.
It would depend on sea power too
Germans were better with land armies. Britain ruled the waves.
Obviously you do not know history , king george came from Germany,, the brittish royal are English born but German blood , , nazi is not German ,they are nationist nazi , to stop the royal of communist one world order , Germany empire was allied with the brittish royals pirates and the rest of their corporations policies French royals , American democrats,
Australia new zealand Canada , is communist of their terriosm , but the fact is the brittish royals are fake they just gang a fake family lost their royalty before the war , should watch king speech ,
France thought that way but were beaten by the British on sea and by land with Allies.
if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle
They were unified, they were the Holy Roman Empire. They were never close to the level of the British, because they were weak militarily, and obsessed with religion.
Crazy really how a tiny island nation like that was able to conquer the world. Like it or not, Britain shaped the world as we know it.
I don't know why people keep calling Britain a tiny island. It's the 7th largest in the world, out of 600,000 islands.
@@zacmumblethunder7466Okay Mr Pedantic. They mean its a tiny country, that happens to be an island, not so much the island being small to other islands.
@@raveninnsbruck9166 Then they should say that. It's not difficult.
The fact that we use their language 😂
Germany is not that big either
it was so big,people are commenting from the regions you missed
For the size of us you must admit that’s impressive
That's the only good thing about the empire. It was totally evil
What you marked as India was called British Raj, which included today's India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
That was bharatvarsh before invasion of British and the word British raj (raj means rule that means every land countries ruled by British not just bharat
Queen Victoria First Empress of 'India' would disagree.
Just because it's different in name doesn't makes it different.
Example Vichy France, Weimar Republic, Soviet Union (Russian Empire of Communism).
You forgot burma as well
@@A_man_of_culture_25 Before the arrival of Europeans in India, the Mughals ruled. They were ruler’s descended from mongol Turkic people, outsiders that brought further Islamic influence to India. India was supposedly under Mughal hegemony but the Mughals lacked naval strength. Those following Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism also didn’t particularly enjoy Islamic domination. They had their own rulers and kingdoms, rulers even within the Mughal and later Hindu Maratha empires enjoyed massive autonomy.
@@S-BOTZ and Sri Lanka no?
Beautiful work very informative thank you
When I saw the the notification, I knew it is a must watch. Thanks alot Epic history.
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That was when Britain was ruled by great people unlike what we have today.
Fiji still has the Union Jack in their flag after independence
So does australia
Many countries in the commonwealth do. Its because we are culturally tied together.
@CCC3dagoat I thought it was higher? Or at least the number of FLAGS (not countries) with the Union Jack in it is like 27 different flags. Lots got rid of it after independence (like the South African flag) but lots have kept them too, but number of flags currently used with the UJ in them is much higher than just 4.
I remember reading "sailing alone around the world" which is the true story of a circumnavigation done in the 1890s.
The vast majority of stops the author made were in British territory.
Probably would have been much harder to pull off without guaranteed access to English speakers for most of the way.
Talking about Joshua Slocum? Mm, born Canadian, naturalized American. ( My vivid memory from his book was the fact that he took a lot of sharp roof tacks, and in the area of Patagonia, every night when he anchored to sleep, he'd scatter the tacks all over the deck of his sailboat, to poke the feet of the local indigenous when they snuck aboard to try to rob Slocum, if not try to kill him. Then every morning he gathered up the nails.)
@galerad7254 yeah Josh Slocum.
Think they were carpet tacks, like thin boards with small nails sticking up from them to hold the edge of a carpet in place.
”india the jewel in the crown” literally the greatest economy for the empire.
Odd there's no mention of Hong Kong or the other Chinese Concessions Britain had.
The good old days 🇦🇺
Thank you for this alot Epic history
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Britishers will get goosebumps by watching this video. Their language and culture is dominating the world 😅😅😅
@@sushantkumar9202 Britishers that's a new one bro lol... We're just called the British (from people who don't live here ) here we're either English, Scottish, Welsh ... Northan Ireland is just part of the UK (ridiculous I don't know why our government didn't just let Ireland rule itself, I know the northan Irish are full of people who emigrated from Scotland and England when English kings (Norman's really) tried to breed the Irish out and the north is prodestant and the rest of the country catholic....which is mental as modern DNA proved were pretty much the same people ...the Scots and Irish and Cornish who claim to be Gaelic were just influenced by Gaelic culture and a few Gaelic who settled but mostly the fashion of the time ....just like how they now know England wasn't invaded by Anglo Saxons just a few settled here and we picked up their culture... Basically the original British came from the Basque region in Spain ....DNA doesn't lie ) also a lot of Scandinavian blood from viking settlers, mostly the north of England... Anyway hope that's helped clear up on a basic level ... There's a lot more to it but my finger be sore by the time I've finished ... And it's no laughing matter a lot of people died in 'the troubles' including a pub full of regular people in my city Birmingham blown up by the IRA and the untold atrocities carried out in Ireland by parts of the British army
@@Salacious-Crumba lot of differences among yourselves but for other countries it is same for them. I mean we Indians have extreme differences of culture and language but still we are recognised as Indian from your perspective. So your explanation doesn't provide any conclusion. By the way you describe many things about u.k😅😅
"Britishers" isn't a word
@@jimhalpert0 I spent my time trying to explain but the Nobhead didn't appreciate it ... Basically like you said "Britishers isn't a word ...it's either British or the British... Oh well I tried bro
@@Salacious-Crumb okay I appreciate your knowledge. Thanks for correcting grammatical mistakes.
Sri Lanka (British Ceylon) was not part of India.
@@TheAustralianMade oh ok I got that wrong, interesting 🤔
Hi
Mad Churchill was born there
No Churchill wasn't born in Ceylon he was born in Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England
@@baijayantasenchowdhury9806 Not Winston Churchill I'm talking about Mad Jack Churchill
1/4 of the world under 1 flag, 1/5 people under the same royal power
One official language 😬
The Jewel 💎 in the crown 👑
Remember this
The British Empire was so big that it is said that their land mass is almost the same size as the moon
If you include territorial waters, it was a surface area the same size as that of the moon!
That’s why no one in the UK is ever that bothered about 1776. We have more than one pie in the oven.
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New editor is killing it! 🔥 Give him a raise!
Fun fact: Britain uses trust as a weapon
Tensions And fear
Forgot to mention one of its most important colonies, Hong Kong
Everyone loves a bit of Opium.
Britain once had the empire the sun never sets
Lots of these countries were independent in 1919.
The fact that Russia covers land half of what the British colony covered back then is crazy.💀
Russia isn't really that large, he takes those large lands because no one's own it
Included Singapore too.
It was only so big, because it was the most successful. It laid infrastructures for countries around the world.
Very impressive. Seeing it laid out on a map like that was a treat.
Hong Kong with all its history and given back in 1997. Worth mentioning quite a bit.
Where's Singapore man. It was probably the most successful port and gave the British more control over trade in the Malay Archipelago and Southeast Asia as a whole.
My man Raffles' work was disregarded??😭
You missed the other half of Guyana
🎶RULE BRITANNIA🎶Britannia ruled the waves 👸🏻🌍💂🏻♂️🎶
Yeah ‘ruled’ being the operative word.
@@TheMusicalElitistStill incredibly strong. But in a way, the SBS do rule the waves, they're the most skilled naval unit in the world.
For some reason I had always thought the height of the British empire was in the early 1700s. Maybe because that was before the US had broken from Britain. And wow! 1919 was the height of its empire and it had 450 million people which was a fifth of the world population at the time? That's not even close to a fifth nowadays. China and India both have over 1 billion people each.
achemined empire had 44% of the world population in 2500 years ago.
that's something else.
First superpower in the world
@@alanw1775egyptian was the first super power
@@randomworld4662 To be considered a Superpower you must be able to influence other countries, nations, and international institutions due to military, economic, and cultural strength. Even during the bronze age Egypt did not have that power. It was considered a great power of the ancient world but it needed to be on good terms with many neighbors to achieve that power. Tin is rare and they didn't own the mines nor the trade routes nor did they have the men or logistic to control such things militarily or influentially.
And India during Gupta Empire, Mughal Empire, Maurya Empire, Delhi Sultanate
No matter how much did they achieved. As an indian, i will never forget their doings towards us. We may forgive but will never forget.
Even after stealing 45 trillion dollars of loot Britain is behind India in terms of GDP 😆
@@hatERgoneWILD nobody wants your forgiveness bruv
The British brought civilization and the English language to your barbaric country, you should b grateful
They did the same, even worse to the others, they almost wiped out the actual Australians.
@@hatERgoneWILD lol there's always a bloody Jeet crying in the comments section 🙄🤦
Seriously, what makes you think people need your forgiveness??
And remember, the British rarely used their own troops to control the People in all those Colonies, they always hired locals of those Colonies as Police and Military personnel to subdue and control the People in all those Colonies.
We like to think animals are so stupid when one lion comes, hundreds of animals run even though if all those animals worked together, they can defeat the lion, but that never happens. Similarly, if all the People in those colonies worked together, the British would never have been able to Colonize such large portion of the World, the British knew how to play divide and rule very well. Even border conflicts that exist today in places like India-Pakistan in Kashmir, Israel-Palestine, are because of the British.
And thanks to the British，all of us are speaking English today
Ni thigum?
Most*
The most inferior language to ever exist
Anglo saxons don't play, lets hope they stay chill
*Anglo-Celts
@@W.M.Pitt1 true
@@W.M.Pitt1but mostly Anglo saxons.
@@goonerinSP British people are more Celtic than Anglo-Saxon.
The middle East was a system of protectorates, not directly controlled by Britain. Similar for half of India. By the time the British stepped foot on some of the African designated lands, Australia and Canada were independent. It never was as uniform and big as depicted on this map. It was empty lands, protectorates and a few populated Indian territories.
It ruled over 23% of the world's population at the time. So not exactly "empty land"
Thank you. Someone said it.
No where is truly empty, except the desert
Pure cope 😂. The British carved up the Middle East after annihilating the ottomans with their reserves whilst fighting a war on three fronts. The British delineated both domestic and the foreign policies of Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Aden etc. trying to claim that’s not conquest but protectorates is hysterical cope 😂. If you can force the sons and fathers to be drafted to fight wars for you that’s conquest, hate to break it to you 😊
@@a11osaurussshhhh don’t get in the way of his cope 😂
Corrections:
In 1919, Australia and New Zealand were already independent.
Britain did not take all of Togo and Cameroon.
Brunei and Singapore were all colonies, so is Papua, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, etc.
At that time in London the biggest 'chorbazar' was held time to time..
@@simililife9228 what the hell does that even mean?
**whispers seductively** they never got Ethiopia
Not like they'd need it.
For those who is wondering where is Bangladesh it was part of India back in ww1
The good old days!
@@DMurph-y7t Jacob Rees Mogg lover
Fun fact, Spain achieved that title first.
Was gonna say that
yeah except they collapsed a century before the British Empire did so 🤷🏻♂️
@@Rildar 🗿
@@reygonzalez4719 fun fact: nobody asked.
@@Rildarde la misma manera que ascendió antes, cayó antes
Canada was considered the greatest land achievement Britain ever took. No doubt since Canada is absolutely massive.
Proud to be a brit
Ireland was ( Nerver ) Britain. Britain is an island, when the British empire invaded and controlled Ireland, it was The kingdom of Great Britain and the ( Kingdom of Ireland) because Ireland is a separate Island.
Not sure why he showed The Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪☘💚 as well at the start. It's not in The UK 🇬🇧. He should have at least done it in a different colour or something. It's just England 🏴, Wales 🏴, Scotland 🏴 and Northern Ireland in the UK. And Britain is the landmass which includes England, Wales and Scotland.
Lad use your brain, we were still controlled by them when ww1 began, which is where this graph is basing its data😂
And btw ireland is also part of the British Isles, not just Wales Scotland and England
@@finger3306 Yeah I didn't say British Isles, can you read? I said the land mass of BRITAIN. Idiot. The British Isles is a geographical term for the land mass of the islands of Britain and Ireland. But when people say Britain it means England, Scotland and Wales. The UK is them and also NI. Also, not sure why you think I'm a lad. And the graph doesn't have a caption saying WW1 so it's misleading for people who weren't educated on the subject. So they will see that and think all of both islands are the UK, which is incorrect. Also my dad is from Northern Ireland and my mum and the rest of us are from the Republic so I know what I'm talking about, thanks sweetie. In regards to using my brain, I'm university educated but I can see you need to work on your sentence structure so maybe study a bit. Also, why are you coming at a fellow Irish person standing up for Ireland in the comments? Won't be replying to you anymore. Buh-bye.
@@finger3306 Ok sweetie, not sure if you can read. Imagine 🤣. Did I say British Isles? No. I said the land mass of Britain. The British Isles is a geographical term for the islands of Ireland and Britain, the land masses. It is not a political term. Great Britain or Britain is the land mass / political term which includes England, Scotland, Wales, just like I said. Where as the UK includes those countries and Northern Ireland. Also, not sure why you think I'm a lad or why you're coming for a fellow Irish person sticking up for Ireland! And in regards to using my brain, I'm university educated and my dad is from NI and mum and rest of us from Republic so I know what I'm talking about. My dad grew up during the troubles. As for you, you might want to read a book, I can see your sentence structure is not great. Also, the picture of the two islands at the start does not have a caption saying WW1 actually. Not talking about after. But when he shows the map at the very start, there is nothing to say WW1 and the countires are not differentiated. Buh-bye. Slán, won't be responding again.
Why'd you include Palestine but not Israel? Seems a bit of a leftie bias towards the Hamas supporters.
Because he said Palestine it was at the moment a mandate named Palestine you foolish brainwashed western being i say Palestine to am i now a hamas supporter you emotional kid i hate their crimes like i hate those idf scumbags
Bro got humiliated lol
@ education not your forte bruh?
Obviously because Israel was created in 1947 after dissolution of that empire 🤦
Isreal didn't exist then you clown
Bro said Honduras but it showed Belize ????
Finally a comment about this
Yeah I thought I was the only one who noticed
In India we saw jalian walabak. Who knows how many times they were made in so many years and how many countries. Still Buddha is living in so many countries by educating love and compassion
Britain is 1 island not 2
British isles is over 800 islands
GB also held Ireland at this time
@@Brimfarm correct as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Britain is still 1 island.
@@ironhand9096 Correct but he didn’t say ‘British isles’ in tagline.
Mull, Lindisfarne, the Isle of White, the Shetland’s, the Orkneys, Anglesey, Uist etc beg to differ on that subject. Also so do about 40% of the people of Northern Ireland
"The Sun Never on the British Empire" 🔥🔥
Damn, Nigeria's not on the list...i need to fix that...❤
"The sun never sets in the British Empire, because even God doesn't trust the British in the dark."
-- Someone
@@priyangshumallick1889 the sun never sets on the British empire cause the god is an Englishman
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There fixed it for you 😉🙂
@@rob12x56and Jesus was a black African
@@rob12x56😂 good joke
@@rajeshtv3357 much better than the ops comment
The greatest nation ever , so proud to be British
Look where we are now.
@@simony2801Time to get rid of the woke.
Yeah you can be proud
One of Britains colonies has a larger GDP lil bro
@@Catgplays it would be embarrassing if they didnt ......
with 1.5 Billion people and the 7th biggest land mass ...
If they grew one Turnip each it would be a wealthy country
I love how out of those 450 million people, us people born in Britain were no more British than the others. We were all subjects of the king... didn't matter that we were born here at all we all had equal status. Up until 1964, only then were we considered British foremost than anyone else.
I thought, the biggest Empire in human history was the Mongolian Empire
It was if you count siberia
The mongol empire was the Largest contiguous empire
Meaning the largest big continuous chunk of land 9.7 million sq milies
The British empire was many separate chunks. When added up are larger 13.7 million sq miles
For reference the USA including Alaska is 3.5 million sq miles
Largest empire if your metric is empires that are one large piece of land. Britain was the largest by territory overall.
The largest continuous land empire was the Mongol empire.
And they let them all go. Such humble folks ❤
@@ragmority 😆 how generous
Did you hear the story of Haiti getting independence from France? The French sailed their navy over there and said "you can have your independence if you like- but you must compensate us for well over a century, or we can destroy you". Popr old Haiti got off to a really bad start thanks to the French
@bellywood7688 or they are just stupid
Haiti's average IQ is 67😂
Someone will definitely not get the sarcasm here i just know it
They still haven't recovered from all the generosity 😆🇬🇧💩
Although Sri Lanka was included in the British Empire, it was not ruled as a part of British Raj. In that time Sri Lanka known as British Ceylon.
"The sun never sets in British empire because the gods couldn't even trust the English in the dark"