| ▲ | ivell 8 hours ago | |
Britain had large amount of colonies and therefore access to a large market. The markets were designed to extract wealth, see for e.g. https://averyreview.com/issues/57/empire-salt-tax The industries in Britain had access to such huge monopolistic markets, so not really a surprise. | ||
| ▲ | 0xDEAFBEAD an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
Britain was the largest empire in history and covered 25% of the Earth's surface area. What was it which allowed them to become the largest empire in history? | ||
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| ▲ | tsunamifury 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I love comments like this... they say "well like just build amazon, easy as that" | ||