The Middle East has been important since the first humans left Africa to settle in the rest of Europe and Asia, becoming a region of first-rate …
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The British Empire: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
What did the British Empire do exactly and what was so bad about it? These key moments in British history came to define the colonial era.
It was once said that the sun never sets on the British Empire. Although the Empire is long consigned to the history books, its geographical legacy …
Blessed with the authority of conducting and protecting itself in the name of the Crown, the British East India Company had amassed wealth previously …
When the potato crops failed in 1845, the people were left at the mercy of the British government, a mercy which was mismanaged and far from …
In 1879, the British Empire went to war with the Zulu Kingdom on the east coast of South Africa. Having been exceedingly successful in their battles …
At the beginning of the 20th century, before the First World War, the British Empire was embroiled in a brutal war of colonialism that made it …
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