Differences Between The British And American Empires

The quote “World History is nothing more than the history of the British Empire and the American century,” proves to be accurate in many ways, but is fundamentally untrue. Colonization within Asia, Africa, and Latin America allowed the ideologies of the British and American empires to infiltrate the countries. Moreover while many nations have followed the economic and political models set forth by the British and American empires, each nation has a basic history that is characterized and individual to that nation.
Due to the advanced technologies in the Britain and America, the two countries were able to reach economic prosperity quicker than other nations. To establish such high economic growth, the British and American people implemented the …show more content…
Cash crops enabled the countries to grow mass amounts of the crop for a large profit, an idea implemented not only in mainland Britain and America, but in their colonies as well. The idea of producing cash crops has stuck around, especially in the colonized areas within Africa and Latin America. The majority of the African agrarian economy is supported by the production of cash crops such as cocoa, coffee, cotton, fruit, rubber, and tea. Similarly in Latin America, the agrarian economy is supported by cash crops such as coffee, cotton, and sugar. As for the industrial aspect, the introduction of new technologies within Britain and America allowed the two countries to reach an Industrial Revolution quicker than other nations. A sense of convenience to follow the British and American models came about with the introduction of their technologies. Although countries used the British and American technology as a model does not mean that other countries could not have come to an Industrial Revolution on their own. Due to the progressive government within Japan, the country had already made