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September 13th, 2011, 07:58 PM
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#1 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,107 | The British empire.
What is the legacy of the British empire?
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September 13th, 2011, 08:49 PM
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This sums it all up fairly well ...(tongue in cheek from Sargon's favorite book)  | | | 
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September 13th, 2011, 09:15 PM
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#3 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by okamido  This sums it all up fairly well ...(tongue in cheek from Sargon's favorite book) | Yes I know but whats the problem with going over it again.
I hate that book. Hahaha.
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September 13th, 2011, 10:22 PM
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#4 | | Scholar
Joined: May 2009 From: New Jersey Posts: 520 |
Industrialization of the world, English as the dominant language.
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September 14th, 2011, 12:39 AM
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#5 | | Cutting your grass
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 5,673 |
Made soccer the global game, a crime for which the English shall burn in hell for.
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September 14th, 2011, 12:50 AM
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#6 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2011 From: Bedfordshire,England. Posts: 5,553 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawnmowerman Made soccer the global game, a crime for which the English shall burn in hell for. | Kiss my English a**e.....  | | | |
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September 14th, 2011, 12:53 AM
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#7 | | Historian ¤ Member of the Year ¤
Joined: Sep 2011 From: UK Posts: 14,612 |
That even if you are a little island you could still rule half the world. (and yes I am referring to past event not now  )
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September 14th, 2011, 01:16 AM
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#8 | | Acting Corporal
Joined: May 2011 From: Navan, Ireland Posts: 5,168 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawnmowerman Made soccer the global game, a crime for which the English shall burn in hell for. | But it also gave the world rugby and cricket.
If no Empire I may never have known the delights of 'curry'!  | | | |
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September 14th, 2011, 01:18 AM
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#9 | | This title is too lo
Joined: Apr 2010 From: T'Republic of Yorkshire Posts: 15,956 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevinmeath cricket. | For which a place shall be forever reserved in Heaven for the English.
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September 14th, 2011, 02:07 AM
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#10 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,270 | Quote:
Originally Posted by zwolf1215 Industrialization of the world, English as the dominant language. | and commercialisation - global trade networks, common rules of commerce, liberalisation and globalisation of markets, finance and ideas.
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