Britain shoots a bunch of black people holding spears and calls it an "Empire"

>Britain shoots a bunch of black people holding spears and calls it an "Empire"
>Germany stops a 1000 year in fight and calls it an "Empire"
What is an Empire? Do you need to step all over savages or do you just need to own your own land?

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you need to rule over several different peoples

Britain's Empire came from defeating the European powers who also wanted to expand outside Europe.

And this

You know, there was actually a lot of controversy about the name "Empire" here. In the formal sense, it only stemmed from Victoria being the Empress of India, and a lot of people found that title distasteful and thought it wasn't worth the problems it would cause.

>This system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria[12] (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India).

This, they had an emperor, therefore it was an empire.

You need to core at least 28 provinces

t Paradox pro, currently guiding the Empire of Malta

More correctly Britain had a Emperor-King/Queen

>Britain's Empire came from defeating the European powers who also wanted to expand outside Europe.
Such as...?

>and a lot of people found that title distasteful and thought it wasn't worth the problems it would cause.
No wonder. Prior to the Aliens act, Indians and Africans could come and go to Britain however they pleased.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_Act_1905

How much spoonfeeding do you need?

>Such as...?
Such as France and Spain who made a habit of ceding territory to Britain after losing wars, like the Seven Years War (my favourite):

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_War

>Prior to the Aliens act

>How much spoonfeeding do you need?
Quite a bit actually

>Such as France and Spain who made a habit of ceding territory to Britain after losing wars, like the Seven Years War (my favourite):
>tfw we will never live in a french administered world
honest shame

There seems to be some kind of implication that an empire is just a really big kingdom, but it's really all about whatever the leader is named. King -> Kingdom, Emperor -> Empire.

Not really. An Empire consists of several distinct kingdoms/states/nations/principalities and the common, binding thread of the Empire is imperial rather than national or ethnic.

For example, take the Austrian Empire. Different languages, ethnicities, kingdoms, religions and so on. They all shared loyalty to the Habsburg Emperor.

It wasn't great, they were so fucking unstable in the late 1700's with the non-stop swapping out of governments from the revolution every other week you had to do a 180 and pay off the new government sent in if you were lucky, if not you were executed overvsomething stupid.

>American """education"""

"empire" is a western concept that comes from Rome, its meaning varies a lot through history. You could easily call it a buzzword

A collection of kingdoms

We are empire

Portugal real empire and can into sea and coast

Why wasn't the ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth called Emperor then? He ruled over Poles, Lithuanians, Belarussians, Ukrainians and several other ethnicities, yet we only ever had kangz.
This.

literally traded Canada for the USA
biggest fuck up in History

Alaska was a way bigger fuck up trade, Russia gave up a shitload of land, resources and a strategic position for 7.2 million USD (123 million in todays currency)

Furthermore the German Empire was very much a mono-ethnic nation state. The king of Prussia had himself crowned emperor though, because he wanted to appear more powerful than the king of Bavaria wanted to retain his former title.

America isn't an Empire despite white Americans ruling over blacks, mexicans, natives, hawaiians, etc

Remember the Japanese have an emperor too.

He rules a small island, kek. The empire of japan AHAHAHA

Empire means "king of kings" + imperial outlook