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The empire was built on trade importing raw materials such as cotton tea and rubber and exporting manufactured goods from locomotives train engines to machine tools. The policy of granting or recognizing significant degrees of self-government by dependencies which was favoured by the far-flung nature of. Miles in 1920 The empire on which the sun never sets was a phrase commonly used to describe the British Empire. The territorial evolution of the British Empire is considered to have begun with the foundation of the English colonial empire in the late 16th century.

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The British Empire controlled territories shown in red on every continent in the world.

British Empire Map Peak. While proponents say it brought various economic developments to the parts of the world it controlled. The above map shows the peak of British imperialism in the early 1920s. Shaping it in all manner of ways.

1952 Mau Mau Rebellion broke out in opposition to white British colonial rule in Kenya. Since then many territories around the world have been under the control of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states. British Empire Peak size.

At that time it covered 355 million sq km 1371 million sq mi which represents 2384 of the Earths land area or equivalent to 9367 of the Moons surface area 379 million sq km. The triumphs the humiliations the good that it brought and the bad that it inflicted. 1947 Declaration of Indian Independence and the partitioning of India and Pakistan.

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