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More bad stuff: - Opium wars with Chinese - Transatlantic slave trade - Use of slave labor in the Caribbean - Taxation without representation in the colonies
by jschveibinz 5y ago
More bad stuff:
- Opium wars with Chinese
- Transatlantic slave trade
- Use of slave labor in the Caribbean
- Taxation without representation in the colonies
- Stealing raw materials and labor from Africa
- Partitioning of the Middle East
- Ireland
Some good stuff:
- scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc.
- industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc.
- legal codes and systems
- parliamentary democracies
- standards for trade and commerce
- English language as lingua franca
- Jcowell 5y agoAre all of those good stuff attributed to Britain? I can see many being subscribed to Europe as a whole but surely not 1 empire.
- rramadass 5y ago>Some good stuff: - scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc. - industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc. - legal codes and systems - parliamentary democracies - standards for trade and commerce - English language as lingua franca The worst of "revisionist" history! Much of the "Scientific Revolution" was due more to Europeans in general rather than the British per se. The "legal codes and systems" were designed entirely with self-interest in mind and destroyed whole societies which were more community-based and self-sustaining in nature. The fact that they have become dominant is entirely the result of the "Colonial Era" and not due to any inherent "goodness" i.e. they are an "accident of history".