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He commissioned the first explorations across the Atlantic

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Jamestown was founded: first American settlement

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Because Britan didn't wanted to fall behind Spain and Portugal they claimed land in North Carolina and Newfoundland. But they had problems with the supply so the colonies weren't succesfull until the early 17th century. 1558 - 1603

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In the early 17th century when settelments were founded in North America and shortly after in the Caribbeans. These became a source of wealth because of slave trade and sugar plantations

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Companies like the East India Tradin Company gained land in Asia and traded spices. So the Empire expanded.

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After the War of Independence the British Empire lost the colonies in North America, although Canada stayed a British settelment.

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1770 Austrailia was claimed by James Cook and used for prisoners. As the country developed it became lucrative for wool and gold. For a time Melbourne was the richest city in the world
1840 New Zealand was claimed.

Those countries later became independent and self-governing, but still recognized the Queen as Head of State

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Britain defeated Napoleon and became the European superpower

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Queen Victoria was reigning around 26 million square kilometres and 400 million people were added to the British Empire.

1857 India was claimed and became "the jewel in the crown", because of the size and natural resources.

In Africa colonies were established in places like Nigeria, Kenya and so on

New Technologies like the steamship and the telegraph became essential for the administration.

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number of people added to the Empire due to colonization between 1815 and 1914; also the number of people with English as mother tongue

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height of the British Empire: 25% of world population are part of the British Empire, British had gained territory with the Versailles Treaty

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Two world wars resulted in Britains bankrupcy in 1945. A decision was made to give independence to any country, that wanted it.This population exchange lead to mass killings.

1997 the last major colony Hong Kong was given to China.

In 1947 India was given Indenpendence and the state of Pakistan was created. T

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The intergovernmental Connection between the former States of the Empire

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The intergovernmental Connection between the former States of the Empire

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After the Biritsh Empire had started to disappear the States still kept in touch with an intergevernmental organisation called Commonwealth

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the members of the Commonwealth began to copy the
style of parliamentary systems, systems of law and cicil service from the England.

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the Commonwealth games are the second biggest sportevent on earth and take place every 4 Years

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Some of the goals from the NATO like fighting against the terrorism are getting shared and supported by the Commonwealth

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End of Empire: British handed it back to China

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the most citizens and politicians don`t want to become a chess figure of europe and tried to leave the EU until it happend for some business people is this a very bad thing