How did this part of a small island on the edge of Europe become

>>2842512
I kind of wish people would realize that these are questions that justify full-length book series or doctoral theses rather than a thread on an imageboard.

>>2842528
For a complete explanation, yes, but here would must be satisfied with a short list of important factors and memes.
You could recommend literature too. Be constructive.

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>>2842512
Modern day Rome for like 50 years about 200 years ago.

>>2842512
Geography, great leaders/inventors/engineers, constitutional monarchy with limited government powers and a hefty dose of geopolitical scheming

>>2842565
What's up with him? He looks Latino to me

>>2842512
>British Empire
>Posts an image of England

Learn political geography pls

>>2842512
perfidy

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>>2843725
You do realise Europeans can have dark hair and brown eyes, right?

>>2843725
Could've had a swarthy ancestor, it's not unheard of to have an Italian or a Spaniard or whatever from way back. The Welsh are also pretty dark-featured a lot of the time.

>>2843769
I've never met a "pure" brit as swarthy and southern looking as him

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>>2843792
You mainly find them in North-West Scotland, Wales and South-West England.

>>2842512
That there British channel made trying to dominate Angloland a pain in the ass due to navy supremacy, if it was connected to Europe the Normans would have fucked their shit a long time ago.

>Taking land from uncivilized spear-chucking natives
Wow, what a powerful empire!

>>2843725
That's the actual Celt look. They came from Iberia.

>>2843815

This. The British Channel is why Angola was never invaded by the Normans or Vikings.

>>2843792
Are that actor who played Saruman and Connery "pure" brits?

>>2843819
>The E*ropean hunches over, gets ready to pepper the same tired old thread with the same tired old bitter quips
>Over an English data transmission format
>On an English computer
>Powered by transistors built on Scottish scientific principles

>>2843847

No the actor who played Sean Connery was African.

>>2843839
I always thought the reason why Angola was never invaded by the Normans or vikings was because they didn't visit Southern Africa. I guess I was wrong.

>>2843855
The actor who played Saruman, and Connery

>>2843862

The vikings invented Africa centuries before Columbus did.

Cause France needed to ruin Europe so hard it had to look for other land to take.

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>>2842512
Read the influence of sea power on history to understand the Anglo American centuries of dominance.

>>2843865

Count Dracula was Transylvanian.

>>2843875
This book is pretty much what led to WWI. Thanks, Mahan.

>>2842512
>a modern-day Rome?

what?

>>2843889

I know, right, why do retards always compare the lame Roman Empire with the mighty British Empire that built the entire modern world?

>>2843893

>the mighty British Empire

Little over half the British Isles and a bunch of remote islands?

>>2843847
The actor who played saruman is italian

>>2843862
The vikings literally sailed from new found land to the Yucutan pensula and taught the aztecs how to make longboats but then Aztec society [COLLAPSED] so they couldn't use them

>>2844025

You're thinking of Frodo.

>>2843906
>India
>the sub continent which never became Muslim despite 1k years of occupations, which sent delegates to Rome and the mongold never conquered

>>2844052

So I just checked Wikipedia to see if India had been invaded by Britain over the weekend, but it appears that India is in fact still a sovereign nation.

>>2844084

Wow you don't say.

>>2844084
So by your genius logic, India is both a "remote island" and also a proud independent subcontinent who don't need no man? Fascinating, /his/ is so illuminating at times.

>>2844094

?

What I'm saying is that India isn't part of the British Empire you fucking mongoloid. Work on your reading comprehension.

>>2844099
Maybe because this thread is about the historical British Empire which hasn't existed for at least two decades, dipshit?

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>>2843847

Christoper Lee's mother was Italian

Sean Connery is of partial Irish descent (but is a full-blooded 'British Isles' native)

>>2842512
The English channel was very valuable and they were extremely hard to invade.

>>2844112

>modern-day

Doesn't sound very historical to me.

>>2844187
Look up what "modern" actually means, dense fuck.

>>2844200

Nice try but I'm afraid that modern-day is not used as an expression referring to anything before present and recent times.

see >>2834371

>>2844259
wrong.

>>2844326
what do you believe is wrong

>>2843839
>Angola

Uhhh

>>2842512
>a modern-day Rome
Brits eat pizza now everyday?

>>2844241
>universe is 13 billion years old
>life is ~5 billion years
>humanity is ~2 million years
>70 years ago isn't recent
>inb4 universe is 6016 years old

>>2843760
this

Protestant work ethic?

>>2843875
Fuck mahan

What is this retarded thread even about?

>>2843819
Kinda like every other fucking empire in existence.

gott strafe england