I TRIED SO HARD

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>>2871666
Malaspina's journey was based desu even if he didn't end up mapping everything.

>>2871666
A lot of that were just mountains, jungles, deserts and very sparsely populated territories. The British Empire was much more interesting.

>>2871924
Except the British Empire was also mostly mountains, jungles, deserts, and very sparsely populated territories.

>>2871982
Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and Singapore are some of the most densely populated, richest history bearing regions on earth.

>>2871982
They had posessions in the Middle East and India.

The Americas were kind of empty except for Peru and Mexico after most of the natives died.

>>2871993
They also made up just a small portion of the empire and for a very short time.

>>2871993
The Iberian Union had India before the UK, they also had Netherlands, Belgium, Burgundy, parts of north italy and southern italy, greece, Portugal, Africa, the Catalan Band even possessed some territory in Anatolia
And that was before UK, and with less developed technology

>>2871982
The Brittish empire lasted 70 years.And America was extremelly wealthy in minerals and crops

>>2872178
>had India
no you mongrel, they had small parts of the malabar coast. Akbar regularly bullied their factories into shutting down all the time.

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AND CAME SO FAAAAR

>>2872178
>Greece
You what

>>2871924
and the territories that provided a majority of the world's gold and silver for 3 to 4 centuries.

>>2872405
And potatoes, tobacco, sugar, tomatoes, cottom or coffe. America ha beem extremelly important for Europe's development

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>>2871924
>very sparsely populated
>inca mayan and aztec empire had millions of habitants each
>enough gold and silver to crash the european market for centuries
>we are suposed to believe that 8000000 km2 of australia 10000000 km2 of canada and a few african jungles are much more interesting

>>2872301
The Catalan company conquered Athens and neopatria from the french overlords there, after the ERE shanked them.