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For 3 centuries Britain stuck its flag in any 1.

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of foreign dirt it could find, even if its empire 2.

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grow as much 3.

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accident as design. It all started with Walter Raleigh’s travels to the North American and Caribbean coast in the late 16th century, where 4.

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of land were 5.

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off for England. At first, it was all about trade (tobacco, cotton and fur), but the idea of 6.

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to North America soon found religious fanatics 7.

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the move. Thousands of miles away, the East India Trading Company 8.

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a strong British presence in Asia. A second stage of empire expansion began after the loss of America 9.

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independence in 1776. Victory against Napoleon soon 10.

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up the world to Britain. This growing empire controlled trade and 11.

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vast areas of territory. It gathered a congregation of more than 400 million people by the early 20th century. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Burma, the Caribbean – a line of dependent countries 12.

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through Africa from Egypt down to the Cape. With time, the Empire covered a quarter of the globe. In the second half of the 20th century the Empire became weaker. The dependent states across the globe 13.

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the apron strings from Britain whilst the motherland recovered from world war. Among the last to 14.

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the nest was Hong Kong, 15.

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to China in 1997.