Legacies of the EmpireThe colonial times represent some of the most glorious days in the British history mostly because they were the times of the existence of one of the most powerful empires in the history of the world. The British Empire was one of the biggest empires that have ever existed in the world and it existed in a time span bigger than two hundred years, between the late 16th and the early 18th century. During its existence, the British Empire held over one-fifth on the world’s population and a little less of a quarter of the Earth’s area. While the empire was at the peak of its power there was a saying that said “the sun never sets on the British Empire” because the area that it covered made it possible that the sun was always shining on at least one part of the British numerous territories. Having these things in mind, it is only natural to believe that the British Empire has left numerous legacies on Britain itself as well as the territories it once ruled.
Today’s modern Britain does not have that many legacies visible on its territory in comparison with the countries that it once ruled. The biggest legacy that helped Britain to become the country that it is today is the wealth and the resources that the Empire once provided. The riches that the colonies brought to the Empire are one of the main reasons why Britain is one of the strongest economic forces in today’s world. The Empire gave today’s Britain a chance to grow, to expand and to advance in every imaginable way. Furthermore, the British Queen is still the sovereign of 15 countries that are outside the British Isles and that are all members of the Commonwealth of Nations that accepts the Queen as their reigning constitutional monarch and the royal line of succession. One of the legacies that the Empire has left for today’s Britain is also a large number of minority groups that immigrated to Britain during the colonization and thus making Britain a multi-ethnic society that it is today.
It was mentioned in the previous paragraph that the countries that the British Empire once ruled were left with far more legacies than the territory of today’s Britain. These legacies can be found in the culture, language, legal systems, political systems, and religion of the former colonies and a rough description of each impact will be given in continuation. The influence of the British culture expands too broadly and a whole encyclopaedia would be necessary to enumerate all the impacts on the culture of the former colonies. The language is one of the most important legacies that the British Empire has left its territories but it is also an important legacy for today’s Britain because the English language covers the largest part of the Earth’s area and is also considered as the universal language of communication and it is taught in schools as an obligatory foreign language in almost all the countries that do not have as
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The two countries of the New Zealand and New Zealand Islands were also founded on islands and were connected in part by trade, as was the case with the British Empire. They had similar economic, intellectual, spiritual, and political institutions (notably the Nannoo Treaty and the Treaty of Nauru) but were not able to create the same opportunities for development as the British Empire because of their colonial history, which has nothing to do with them. The British Empire became a colony when the islands were granted status for trade which is still maintained today of course, though the English language probably still is a part of that history but when it was granted status the colonies would have had to become smaller and therefore have fewer opportunities for development, not to mention economic, physical, cultural, and political development, all of them. One might add that the British-language system was widely used in other colonies and it may have had a very strong influence on their decisions regarding the expansion of our trade.
In a previous section, we argued that that British-language in the Colonies was an important cultural legacy for the future but what we have explained above is only a small and speculative perspective. We have not mentioned the English language before and at the time of our enquiries we had seen no evidence that the colonial people would understand the colonial language at all. We do have evidence that, as was noted in the following summary, such an understanding is only possible when the colonial peoples were in large geographic areas such as the New Zealand Islands, and to date only in terms of the use of British- language (e.g. in the English-language of the First World War between North and South Africa and the use of British-language in the Caribbean between the years 1944 and 1945).
The history of language in the New Zealand and New Zealand Islands
We could argue that the English language in New Zealand and New Zealand islands were at the time the lingua franca of the British colonies. But where is the time we have to cite it in order to prove this? What was the colonial people thinking when they acquired these lingua franca rights? If it is so much more than the words and phrases used in the early English spoken in New Zealand we need a greater understanding of it, but what is the time we have to cite it in order to prove this? In summary, it must be pointed out that the colonial people in New Zealand was a very powerful cultural legacy and a major part of our history. What we have mentioned in this section does not prove that the settlers in the colony or even the settlement themselves, or even the colonists in colonies that were founded on islands at the time the colonial people migrated to and later settled in, were racist, sexist or even violent. Rather, it is interesting to note that colonial ideas (usually expressed on the British-language, but certainly not the colonial people’s language, as defined by this article) changed from those that were expressed in those colonies in the early colonial period.
We have pointed out two further examples from the early New Zealand period when white settlers decided that it was an acceptable standard language to speak English regardless of their culture, social status, or national identity, as they were in the early colonial societies, and then made them independent from the rest of the colony. All this occurred about 500 years and although it may have influenced some settlers to migrate to the colony it was not necessary to do so because there are no precedents to support the statement in question.
We have also mentioned several examples in the history of the colonisation of New Zealand of which the colonial people themselves seem to have been involved. We show that two of them were the colonists Andrew Hudson