Who had the best colonial empire? Who had the worst?

Who had the best colonial empire? Who had the worst?

>United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway
>1914

Italy for both

portugal

Best is obviously Sweden, saint Barthelemy and 13 year long lasting colony in north america never forget

this triggered the brits

Best is the British empire.

Worst is Spanish. If you count Ottoman, then by far the Ottoman.

Also for booth

>Worst is spanish
Not fun when you get colonized yourselves huh?

Didn't even think about that. Besides, we got occupied, not colonised. It's not like they extracted out resourced and shit.

I just look at global impact, and Spain really fucked up every part of their colonial enpire, while the British spawned the greatest countries on earth.

Best?
Brits.

Worst?
Belgium. ffs, who's idea was that...

>Worst is Spanish

what is this retarded meme?
Spanish colonies are by far the most developed.

Compare North America to South America.

Every country in South America is a fucking shithole.

>let's ignore the bad colonies
>Argentina and Chile are shitholes

come on now

i see this map way too much

not even gunna bother throwing you a counter-argument

you should just try being less of a retard

Argentina is not THAT much of a shithole because the Spanish mostly left it alone compared to say Peru because there was less to be found in Argentina.

Argentina is still not even close to the US or Australia.

benin empire

>lingua franca has been English for at least a century

Is there even any question?

>compare the best anglo colonies to south america

>what is africa?

>Noempireugal

PORTUGAL

Yes let's throw that in there, OP listed USA as an empire so why not sems legit.

>sierra loene is one of the greatest countries in the world

yea we know

no please come one, what woudl the counter argument be?
it's the first time I post that map btw, I obviously got it somewhere else.

>let me tell you about your country
sure m8

>1914

We were really good at the time, in fact we were really good until the 60's more or less

Name one colony of Spain that is not a shithole.

By the way, Chile and Argentina ARE shitholes.

Argentina was doing pretty great in the beginning of the last century tbqh.

Netherlands

USA has army bases literally every were in the world and maybe even beyond. So I guess that makes them the worst.

Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

if you think our countries are shitholes I'm afraid you're an idiot.

Britain without a doubt

t. Unbiased individual

Please don't put me together with you indio. Thanks

but are any of them a world superpower?

And pretty shitty ever since.
Not a colony.
Are we playing tic-tac-toe, because I just found 3 shitholes in a row.

Unsurprisingly it was a Belgian's idea

>no please come one, what woudl the counter argument be?

That the common thread in Africa across all maps is that it never goes above yellow/red HDI.

Once you go black, you never create a stable civilization.

Lmao at this white boi, he mad af

that half of those in the top 10 HDI rankings were either part of the UK or one of its colonies?

the UK's HDI is 14th, yet 6 countries better than it are former colonies (not including ireland)?

spain's HDI is 26th with it's highest scoring colony at 42nd (chile)

There are african countries that were english or french colonies that are worse than any latin american country. Even much worse than my shitty country.

>world and maybe even beyond.

Uhh.... outer space?

(shut it down, the gueseyim know)

>it's highest scoring colony at 42nd (chile)

Was Roman Empire not great because half of its lands are shitholes today?

Spain did pretty good job and was one of the most influential and powerful empires. It's strange to deny it.

oopsie, argentina at 40

i guess that renders everything i said completely wrong eh

Well a lot of africa is fucked and worse than latin america. That is like failing most of your tests but scoring a couple of A's,thus failing the class, and then mocking the guy that has an average score.

Don't trust Argentina's rank, they were banned for rigging

Your country has been ruled by conquistadors and their ancestors since 1531

wat

When comparing colonies I think Africa should be ignored.
Things were done differently by everyone there, and the place as a whole doesn't end well.

If they are, they wont be for too long.

>if you exclude its bad colonies, UK has the best colonies

ottoman empire was a classical empire, not a colonial one

Why everyone always ingores africa?

Is there a way to see who had the best empire with some kind of math with the hdi or some shit?

The success of modern nations has little to do with the Empires centuries ago.
Events like the Cold War are more determinant than Colonialism in today's rankings.

Well yeah good point but we are independent for almost 200 years now and they were controlled by europe until very recently in a world with much more tech and more modern institutions.
Colonization in north america was very different from the one in latin america too. That is not the point anyway, the worst colonies are in africa and were anglo or french, and that was the question.