Pfft, a bunch of one hit wonders, and then one glorious two hit wonders. And basically all in Europe (on hard mode).
What was Sweden doing in between?
Doesn’t Russia continue to the present day?
So the Danish Empire started around the civil war, won by the king already in power?
English and British should be combined tbh, Scotland only had a couple failed colonies before 1707 so the colonial empire of England seamlessly transitioned to become the British empire
Well suck on that Germany.
Portuguese Empire:
From 1415, with the Conquest of Ceuta.
Until 1999, with handover of Macau to China.
France is missing a Republic, 1848-1851.
I assume Denmark here is supposed to end with the end of colony status for Greenland in 1953, but why does it begin just after the Kalmar Union collapses? What is the criteria here?
What is the cut-off point when it’s no longer a colonial empire? Why do the British and Portuguese continue for longer than the French one? France today has like the largest amount of colonies still under their rule.
Denmark still holds on to Greenland and the Faroe islands, The Netherlands still have some islands in the Caribbean. And what about Norway, with their Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Bouvet?
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Common Portuguese win?? 🤯💀
Probably uncomfortable viewing for a lot of readers of this sub.
Germany may have overcompensated
What does the black line mean.
Where’s [Latvia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curonian_colonization_of_the_Americas)?
Pfft, a bunch of one hit wonders, and then one glorious two hit wonders. And basically all in Europe (on hard mode).
What was Sweden doing in between?
Doesn’t Russia continue to the present day?
So the Danish Empire started around the civil war, won by the king already in power?
English and British should be combined tbh, Scotland only had a couple failed colonies before 1707 so the colonial empire of England seamlessly transitioned to become the British empire
Well suck on that Germany.
Portuguese Empire:
From 1415, with the Conquest of Ceuta.
Until 1999, with handover of Macau to China.
France is missing a Republic, 1848-1851.
I assume Denmark here is supposed to end with the end of colony status for Greenland in 1953, but why does it begin just after the Kalmar Union collapses? What is the criteria here?
What is the cut-off point when it’s no longer a colonial empire? Why do the British and Portuguese continue for longer than the French one? France today has like the largest amount of colonies still under their rule.
Denmark still holds on to Greenland and the Faroe islands, The Netherlands still have some islands in the Caribbean. And what about Norway, with their Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Bouvet?
So what happened to all of these then? https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/
PORTUGAL THE BEST
Why Italy has a colonial empire during the republic? Didn’t they lost everything even before the end of WW2?
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Undeniable proof scandinavians are western europe
Edit woops thought this was 2weu4u
Why no Holy Roman Empire tho
The Soviet Union was the most powerful Russian empire, it should have been included.
I get why leopold’s personal estate isn’t counted, but wouldn’t it have made mire sense to include it?
Sweden wasn’t ever a colonial Empire though?
The dutch looking away from indonesia, nothing to see here
Weird that USSR is not included. It most definitely had puppet states and history of subjugating and annexing neighbours.
Sweden actually colonized parts of Finland from the 12th century until the 19th century. I don’t know why it isn’t included.
Where’s Poland? Oh wait…
I knew the Dutch were strange. They went backwards, from a Republic to a monarchy wtf.
Yet everyone keeps bitching about Congo /s
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where’s Latvia?