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The explorer James Cook played a key role in Australia becoming part of the British Emipre. Australia originally acted as a kind of prison for English criminals (convicts) -> penal colony

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New Zealand became a colony of Enland in 1840 and became a Dominion in 1907. New Zealand is still a part of the Commonwealth today.

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India was a big trading partner of Britain. For that also the „East Indian Trading Company“ was founded.

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The rivalry with the Dutch had led to the massacre of British merchants in the „Spice Islands“ in 1623.

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triangular trade

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triangle trade

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Virgina was founded  by the British in 1607. It was named in honor of the „Virgin Queen“, Queen Elizabeth l.

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triangular trade (1607)

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In 1588 Britain started to become an imperial power because the Spanish Armada was annihilated by the superior English fleet (and bad storms).

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first settlement of the British Empire in North America (1607)

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seat of the British King/Queen, who is head of the British Empire/Commonwealth