Why Did The British Empire Case Study

Why did the British win first prize in the race for a global empire?
The British Empire started its reign in 1496 and lasted for over 450 years. The British Empire, when at the peak of its glory, had almost 20% of the world population under itself in the form of distant colonies all over the world ruled by England. The following are the various reasons for the British being in the list of the most successful empires and also winning first prize in building a global empire:
England was way too behind in the race for colonisation in comparison to the Dutch, the French, the Spain and the Portugal. All of them lacked access to important trade routes to Asia, America etc. but the others except England were always involved in kind of a war-like situation which would take a toll on the population and wealth of those kingdoms. England being an island had an upper hand over the others as it kept away from foreign invasions. Initially, it was ruled by the Romans. When the Romans left due to Barbarian attacks, England was left in turmoil of political and military instability. The locals were highly determined and they found a

They couldn’t trade with other nations. The British had imposed various laws of taxation which were totally in their favour. One good example is that they imposed heavy taxes on the cash crops produced by Indian farmers. The farmers being poor used to take loans from the White men themselves with heavy interest rates. When they were unable to pay those, their lands were confiscated. This was one of the ways in which the people in the colonies were harassed. The British were ruling them but the people were happy initially since they were allowed to do things that the wanted. They failed to understand that that was a very clever British trick of sucking them up. Later the colonies understood that they were only used by the British for improving their value and profits in the global