The British Empire gained its dominans from The Royal Navy, one of the greatest Navies at the time, the British army and their wealth. Britain had a stable government and had been through an industrial revolution. Britain used their dominans to gain money on colonies, become more power and spread their culture and language to other parts of the world.
Benjamin Disraëli, the British Prime Minister, called India "the brightest jewel in the crown".

India had valuable resources that Europe wanted to exploit, like mineral ores and textiles. Even more importantly, it was both a huge source of cheap labor and a large market for British goods. As its largest colonial territory, India was the most important of the overseas possessions of the British Empire. 

There was both advantages and disadvantages for the colonies. Some of the advantages were the spread of the English language another advantage was the changes and innovations in medical care and education. Some disadvantages were the loss of land and discrimination but also that the British Empire profited from slavery in the 1700’s. Another important disadvantage was the fact that the profit from the goods didn't go to the colonies, most of it went to Britain. Therefore the colonies didn’t earn that much money on their own goods. The British Empire was declined in 1945 because the colonies took an increasingly independent view and by the late 1960's most of the colonies were independent countries.

Colonialism has left its imprint in many areas of politics, culture and economy: growing cities, surrounded by peri-urban settlements, a proud nationalism and regionalism amongst the newly independent island states, an uneasy mix of customary and Parliamentary systems of government and administration, systems of education and governments dominated by English as the major regional language. 

The quote ”the sun never sets on the British Empire” symbolizes how powerful and great the empire was - the empire was all over the world, and that explains, how it could be nighttime, and in another part, it could be daytime, because the empire covered so much land, so the sun could never be set all over the empire at the same time.

There is no doubt that Britain was powerful. It used its wealth, its armies and its navy to defeat rival European countries and to conquer local people to establish its empire. However, the empire did not just rely on force. In most of the empire Britain relied heavily on local people to make it work. Until the early nineteenth century, the primary purpose of Imperialist policies was to facilitate the acquisition of as much foreign territory as possible, both as a source of raw materials and in order to provide real or potential markets for British manufactures

The British Prime minister, Benjamin Disraëli, claimed India was “the brightest jewel in the crown,” because India was a more popular and valuable British colony in terms of natural and human resources. India had plenty of natural resources like valuable gems, cotton, and tea and so on. As the population of India was very high compared to other countries Britain were able to earn much wealth from taxations. It is said that Britain were able to earn around twelve million pounds annually from the Indian people itself. The title as ‘the brightest Jewel in the Crown,' was given to India by the British as they could find some preciousness in this country. In fact they found that India was source of several precious stones like Sapphires, rubies, diamonds, emeralds and many more expensive spices.

Some of the advantages for the colonies being a part of the British Empire were; that some of these changes involved innovations in medical care, education and railways. The British Empire fought to abolish slavery in the 1800s, but it profited from slavery in the 1700s.

The disadvantages were: that for many peoples the British empire meant loss of lands, discrimination and prejudice

The end of the empire came in the years after World War 2, with most of Britain's colonies ruling themselves so by the late 1960s, most of Britain's territories had become independent countries.

Parliamentary democracy, the English language and the Christian religion can be found in many countries. 

The British empire has had a huge impact on the world. The majority of former colonies still keep their ties with Britain through the Commonwealth.  Many countries around the world now have multicultural populations. Parliamentary democracy, the English language and the Christian religion can be found in many countries. These are just a few of the ways in which the British empire has had a lasting effect on world history.