Throughout history, numerous events have had significant effects on empires, however, the three that stand out most are; The British East India Company which extended the British Empire to India, The Seven Years War which brought numerous changes to Europe’s colonial empires including Britain acquiring a great part of new France and lastly; the American Revolutionary War which give birth to one of the greatest empire nations to date. It is therefore, plausible to say that had it not been for these three key events, society along with its empires, would not be as advanced in both its social and political aspects. The British East India Company was the pinnacle for this.
Founded by a royal charter, in the seventeenth century, the British …show more content…
At its peak, the Company’s empire of trade extended from Britain across the Atlantic and over Cape Town to the Persian Gulf and onto India. Trading posts were set up at Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean with shops also settled at Basra and Bandar Abbas in the Middle East. However, it was in India that the Company’s influences were most profound. Some of India’s capital cities only flourished due to the Company’s business including Mumbai, Calcutta and Chennai Aside from these posts, the Company established a great territorial empire, first as a strategic expedition for more profit and later for its own sake, ultimately controlling most of the subcontinent. Even so, the Company’s trail did not end there, but stretched to South-East Asia and past China and Japan. Major states like Penang and Singapore were acquired in an era where land was a commodity.While India was the Company’s first major victory, it was in China that it gained more wealth and resources. The Company’s “shop” at Canton was the siphon through which thousands of tons of tea moved west to Britain and beyond, and in the opposite direction, silver and later a flood of opium. Come the mid-eighteenth …show more content…
It is considered the first first global war as numerous battles took place in India, the Caribbean, Europe and North America where Britain emerged victorious against their long-term French rivals. One could say this was an unbalanced battle heavily tipped in Britain’s favour as there is said to have been approximately one million British Americans versus 65,000 French Canadians. The desire to gain access to trade with the Aboriginals throughout the Ohio River caused tension between the two sides and following nearly two years of undeclared battle, war was officially announced in May, 1756 from which the French dominated for the next two years at Fort Oswego and Ticonderoga. However, the tables quickly turned in Britain’s favour as they came to a truce with their Indian allies and appointed a new chief minister, William Pitt, who advised them to take on the territory with a new approach. This new strategy along with an outnumbered France led to a victorious Britain on September, 1759 in Quebec. The war came to a formal end with the 1763 Treaty of Paris which allotted Britain the majority of France’s dominions in New France. As a result of the Seven Years War, empires experienced a drastic change--for Americans this set them on the road to independence while Canada became a British colony with
Founded by a royal charter, in the seventeenth century, the British …show more content…
At its peak, the Company’s empire of trade extended from Britain across the Atlantic and over Cape Town to the Persian Gulf and onto India. Trading posts were set up at Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean with shops also settled at Basra and Bandar Abbas in the Middle East. However, it was in India that the Company’s influences were most profound. Some of India’s capital cities only flourished due to the Company’s business including Mumbai, Calcutta and Chennai Aside from these posts, the Company established a great territorial empire, first as a strategic expedition for more profit and later for its own sake, ultimately controlling most of the subcontinent. Even so, the Company’s trail did not end there, but stretched to South-East Asia and past China and Japan. Major states like Penang and Singapore were acquired in an era where land was a commodity.While India was the Company’s first major victory, it was in China that it gained more wealth and resources. The Company’s “shop” at Canton was the siphon through which thousands of tons of tea moved west to Britain and beyond, and in the opposite direction, silver and later a flood of opium. Come the mid-eighteenth …show more content…
It is considered the first first global war as numerous battles took place in India, the Caribbean, Europe and North America where Britain emerged victorious against their long-term French rivals. One could say this was an unbalanced battle heavily tipped in Britain’s favour as there is said to have been approximately one million British Americans versus 65,000 French Canadians. The desire to gain access to trade with the Aboriginals throughout the Ohio River caused tension between the two sides and following nearly two years of undeclared battle, war was officially announced in May, 1756 from which the French dominated for the next two years at Fort Oswego and Ticonderoga. However, the tables quickly turned in Britain’s favour as they came to a truce with their Indian allies and appointed a new chief minister, William Pitt, who advised them to take on the territory with a new approach. This new strategy along with an outnumbered France led to a victorious Britain on September, 1759 in Quebec. The war came to a formal end with the 1763 Treaty of Paris which allotted Britain the majority of France’s dominions in New France. As a result of the Seven Years War, empires experienced a drastic change--for Americans this set them on the road to independence while Canada became a British colony with