Their expansion occurred in the five
continents:
There were the settler colonies (were designed to accommodate the excess population of the Empire and had some political autonomy.) and the exploitation colonies (which supplied raw materials to the metropolis and lacked political autonomy). For example:
-In Asia one of the most important colony for the British Empire was India, It was a farm colony administered since 1777 by the East India Company. India "The jewel of the British Crown" was the highest exporter of raw materials ( cotton, silk, sugar, tea).
-In Oceania Australia and New Zealand were discovered in the late eighteenth century by Captain James Cook, were used to reduce the overpopulation they had. Australia was practically uninhabited so it was occupied as a prison, but when the British realized the benefit that the land could give them inmigrants was integradated as a labor for the production.
Many of the independent countries of the British Empire, today form the Commonwealth wich is a voluntary association of 54 independent countries.
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