qichi: uro-boros: we need to clarify something, hetalia fandom, that I think is easy to get...

qichi:

uro-boros:

we need to clarify something, hetalia fandom, that I think is easy to get mistaken about

the British empire that everyone thinks of with the whole the sun never sets on the British empire thing takes place primarily during the 19th and early 20th centuries, with Britain having over 1/5 of the world’s population in its power during the 1920s

while Britain did indeed have an empire during the American revolution, it was smaller than the huge I used to rule the world one that every one associates with Britain. It consisted of Scotland, Ireland and bits of the Americas and is referred to as the first British empire, which when compared to the other empires at the time—particularly the Spanish and the Portuguese—it’s very small

so saying that the most powerful country feel on his knees and cried during the American revolution is a misnomer because the empire you’re thinking about is the wrong empire

yeah yeah this is what i’m talkin about