Who had the best colonial empire? Who had the worst?

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>>70185874
>United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway
>1914

Italy for both

>>70185874
portugal

>>70185874
Best is obviously Sweden, saint Barthelemy and 13 year long lasting colony in north america never forget

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this triggered the brits

Best is the British empire.

Worst is Spanish. If you count Ottoman, then by far the Ottoman.

>>70187040
Also for booth

>>70187432
>Worst is spanish
Not fun when you get colonized yourselves huh?

>>70187519
Didn't even think about that. Besides, we got occupied, not colonised. It's not like they extracted out resourced and shit.

I just look at global impact, and Spain really fucked up every part of their colonial enpire, while the British spawned the greatest countries on earth.

Best?
Brits.

Worst?
Belgium. ffs, who's idea was that...

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>>70187432
>Worst is Spanish

what is this retarded meme?
Spanish colonies are by far the most developed.

>>70187672
Compare North America to South America.

Every country in South America is a fucking shithole.

>>70187691
>let's ignore the bad colonies
>Argentina and Chile are shitholes

come on now

>>70187672

i see this map way too much

not even gunna bother throwing you a counter-argument

you should just try being less of a retard

>>70187740
Argentina is not THAT much of a shithole because the Spanish mostly left it alone compared to say Peru because there was less to be found in Argentina.

Argentina is still not even close to the US or Australia.

benin empire

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>>70185874

>lingua franca has been English for at least a century

Is there even any question?

>>70187691
>compare the best anglo colonies to south america

>>70187519
>what is africa?

>Noempireugal

>>70185874
PORTUGAL

>>70187803
Yes let's throw that in there, OP listed USA as an empire so why not sems legit.

>>70187588
>sierra loene is one of the greatest countries in the world

>>70187889
yea we know

>>70187772
no please come one, what woudl the counter argument be?
it's the first time I post that map btw, I obviously got it somewhere else.

>>70187782
>let me tell you about your country
sure m8

>>70185874
>1914

We were really good at the time, in fact we were really good until the 60's more or less

>>70187846
>>70187889
>>70187974
Name one colony of Spain that is not a shithole.

By the way, Chile and Argentina ARE shitholes.

>>70187782
Argentina was doing pretty great in the beginning of the last century tbqh.

>>70188066
Netherlands

>>70185874
USA has army bases literally every were in the world and maybe even beyond. So I guess that makes them the worst.

>>70188066
Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

if you think our countries are shitholes I'm afraid you're an idiot.

Britain without a doubt

t. Unbiased individual

>>70188139
Please don't put me together with you indio. Thanks

>>70187672
but are any of them a world superpower?

>>70188090
And pretty shitty ever since.
>>70188098
Not a colony.
>>70188139
Are we playing tic-tac-toe, because I just found 3 shitholes in a row.

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>>70187645
Unsurprisingly it was a Belgian's idea

>>70187974
>no please come one, what woudl the counter argument be?

That the common thread in Africa across all maps is that it never goes above yellow/red HDI.

Once you go black, you never create a stable civilization.

>>70188253
Lmao at this white boi, he mad af

>>70187974
that half of those in the top 10 HDI rankings were either part of the UK or one of its colonies?

the UK's HDI is 14th, yet 6 countries better than it are former colonies (not including ireland)?

spain's HDI is 26th with it's highest scoring colony at 42nd (chile)

>>70188066
There are african countries that were english or french colonies that are worse than any latin american country. Even much worse than my shitty country.

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>>70188119
>world and maybe even beyond.

Uhh.... outer space?

(shut it down, the gueseyim know)

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>>70188281
>it's highest scoring colony at 42nd (chile)

>>70188198
Was Roman Empire not great because half of its lands are shitholes today?

Spain did pretty good job and was one of the most influential and powerful empires. It's strange to deny it.

>>70188339
oopsie, argentina at 40

i guess that renders everything i said completely wrong eh

>>70188281
Well a lot of africa is fucked and worse than latin america. That is like failing most of your tests but scoring a couple of A's,thus failing the class, and then mocking the guy that has an average score.

>>70188339
>>70188418
Don't trust Argentina's rank, they were banned for rigging

>>70188317
Your country has been ruled by conquistadors and their ancestors since 1531

>>70188574
wat

>>70188317
When comparing colonies I think Africa should be ignored.
Things were done differently by everyone there, and the place as a whole doesn't end well.

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>>70188066
If they are, they wont be for too long.

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>>70189414
>if you exclude its bad colonies, UK has the best colonies

>>70187432
ottoman empire was a classical empire, not a colonial one

Why everyone always ingores africa?

Is there a way to see who had the best empire with some kind of math with the hdi or some shit?

>>70189535
The success of modern nations has little to do with the Empires centuries ago.
Events like the Cold War are more determinant than Colonialism in today's rankings.

>>70188637
Well yeah good point but we are independent for almost 200 years now and they were controlled by europe until very recently in a world with much more tech and more modern institutions.
>>70189414
Colonization in north america was very different from the one in latin america too. That is not the point anyway, the worst colonies are in africa and were anglo or french, and that was the question.