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re: Who Had the Greatest Colonial Power in History?
Posted on 4/27/24 at 7:21 am to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 4/27/24 at 7:21 am to SaintlyTiger88
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Who Had the Greatest Colonial Power in History?
If you exclude the early civilization like the Persian and Roman empires (as they were more taxed / trade satellites) than true colonies (really just the English) as the French were more trappers and would live among the "natives", while the Spanish were about conquest, not colonies. The Portuguese were more shipping than settlement.
I would vote the Dutch.
The sent well over 1 million Europeans to settle foreign lands and their shipping tonnage dwarfed the rest of Europe (including England) 5 : 1 while dominating monopolistic in both spices and slaves. If valued toady the Dutch East India Company would be valued around (10) Ten Trillion US dollars, dwarfing our current largest US corporations.
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