Why is this video called england the evil empire?
The British Empire started life under the name, “The English Empire”, which included such as the American Colonies and some slave colonies such as Jamaica etc. It became the ‘British Empire’ once it had got control of India and so forth. The story of the British Empire began in 1497 when the Italian seafarer John Cabot sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in the service of King Henry VII of England and reached Newfoundland. In 1583 the explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert took possession of Newfoundland for Elizabeth I. By this time the Portuguese and Spanish had divided between them a considerable part of the Earth’s land surface. England was already a formidable power at sea, but its seafarers were mainly freebooters (lawless adventurers) engaged in trade, piracy, and slavery. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 reinforced English sea power, which continued to be mostly privately organised. Unlike the Spanish and Portuguese, the English in the 16th century were neither missionaries nor col
