The British Empire Circled the World

With the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 the British Empire won "the world's power structures championship" and became historically the first empire "upon which," it was said, "the sun never sets." This is because it was the first empire in history to embrace the entire spherical planet Earth's 71-per¬ cent maritime, 29-percent landed, wealth-producing activities. All previous empires—Genghis Khan's, Alexander the Great's, the Romans', et al.— were unified European, North African, and Asian-continental, river-, lake-, and sea-embracing, flat-out land areas completely surrounded in all lateral directions by the infinitely unknown. All earlier empires were ininfinite systems—open systems. The British Empire was history's first spherically closed, finite system. Building and maintaining the world's most powerfrful navy, the 1805 supremely victorious British Empire was to maintain its s sovereignty over the world's oceans and seas for 113 years.

Notes:

Origin of why the "sun never sets" on this Empire.

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Critical Path

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Fuller , R. Buckminster (1981), Critical Path, St. Martin's Griffin, Retrieved on 2013-03-16

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