Date Posted:02:37:12 01/09/08 Wed Author: Saruman Author Host/IP: 15.Red-80-24-236.staticIP.rima-tde.net / 80.24.236.15 Subject: Re: British empire, the biggest empire? In reply to:
Stephen Luscombe
's message, "Re: British empire, the biggest empire?" on 08:55:31 01/03/08 Thu
>Of course, the Spanish claims were based on the Papal
>Bull which divided the planet into a Portugese and
>Spanish zone. Protestant nations never agreed to this
>designation and so it was only the biggest as far as
>the Spanish were concerned. Additionally, most of that
>claim was pure notional ownership. eg much of South
>America was (still is) dense jungle that belonged to
>noone but the native Americans who inhabited.
>Technically they were Spanish (or Portugese) but in
>reality were completely unaware of the gift that the
>Pope had bestowed on the Catholic nations.
I want to believe that the British Empire was bigger but ... Australia, Canada and much of the jungle African territories also are practically empty ... Must we should consider these areas?
