User talk:217.22.55.50
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Please STOP disrupting the British Empire page. Jooler 1 July 2005 06:54 (UTC)
This is becomming extremely tiresome. So in the hope (but little expectation) that you will desist in disrupting the page if some facts are explained to you I will explain the reasons why - The British Empire was the world's first global power and history's largest Empire.
- a) - The British Empire was the world's first global power
- The key word here is power Britain was able to exert overwhelming power on every continent. That is every continent - North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
- I would imagine that you contend that either the Portuguese or the Spanish Empire was the worlds first global power. They were empires that existed in a global context but they did not exert power. One might argue that the Portuguese Empire was not an oceanic empire rather than a global one. It was mainly a network of coastal outposts connected by sea lanes. The Spainsh Empire was more impressive in size. Spain lay claim to a huge amount of territory, but it is illusory to think that Spain had any kind of real power over all of that territory. The vast majority of it had never seen the foot of a Spaniard. Half of the continent of North America was claimed by Spain as "New Spain", but it was not explored until that territory had been acquired by the United States. Spain had but a toehold in Africa and no possessions on the Asian mainland, the Treaty of Tordesillas put paid to any ambitions of global domination.
- The key word here is power Britain was able to exert overwhelming power on every continent. That is every continent - North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
- b) - The British Empire was ... history's largest Empire.
- This isn't even worth arguing about. See http://www.hostkingdom.net/earthrul.html
Now please stop disrupting the page. Jooler 1 July 2005 21:33 (UTC)
"Jooler: please do not vandalize; this user has been blocked from Wikipedia before, for breaking the 3 edits rule" User:217.22.55.50. Never! Jooler 22:12, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
- If you continue to disrupt the page I will ask to have your IP blocked. Jooler 3 July 2005 23:28 (UTC)
- This IP has once again vandalized British Empire at 20:19, 10 October 2005. -- Thatdog 07:02, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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