start your membership today at history bombs.com for full access to our video lessons and teaching [Music] materials Captain what do you see sailor it's history bomb sir the British Empire in one take they'll never take the British Empire I think he's misunderstood the concept as the sales are being unfolded on this complex Journey all around the world one note this video is just 8 minutes yeah that's not long the form has limits century of change resistance and violence all involving this rainy little island starting in England for the first vers its 1581 Q Elizabeth the I night the Sir Francis Drake your ship sailed round the world for my sake proclaiming the glory of England's name and embarrassing our Rivals Portugal and Spain my honor your majesty let the legend be told I stole more Spanish gold than our ship could hold on the Golden Hind I went to find gaps to fill in our ever growing global map exploring the socalled new World by ship was big business at the time great riches could be traded or stolen from indigenous people and European Rivals but that's not the whole story about Drake alongside Sir John Hawkins he was there at the very start of one of the British Empire's worst atrocities the enslavement of millions of African people in the powerful kingdoms of Africa we have seen Portuguese slay traffickers so there's money to be made if we could go on a raid we could start our own Atlantic Sligh train England must get in on it too Dr Hawkins you know what to do take enslave people over the seas and sell them to Spanish colonies British slave trading develops rapidly with active support from monarchs Merchants the military and the public more on this to come at the same time British colonists build permanent settlements in a place they called America some wanted land and wealth others sought Refuge from religious persecution but wherever they went they of course my people who are already living there indigenous princess dressed to impress proud daughter of the power tan East Coast Power Clan the British built Jamestown close to me I was kidnapped but saw an opportunity married a colonist to stop the war between our peoples went to London met the Kings s St Paul steeple leader and a diplomat what they never Tau you that I broke a piece Among Us my name Pocahontas in 1616 poker Hunters was an honored guest in England but sadly the pece she achieved didn't hold colonists killed millions of indigenous people in Wars land grabs and pandemics like small pox meanwhile British triangular trade routes took enslaved people from Africa over the horrific Middle Passage to work on Caribbean plantations but there was always resistance resistance that led to Victory sweeter Le and sugar in a British CA te n of The Maroons and let the Liberation ACC Community Thrive when we escape the plantation a fighter an OB magic m i LED Maroons to the hills of Jamaica and atactic beat the British St to sign a peace treaty with N2 the 16 and 1700s saw resistance to Britain's growing Empire during the 7 years war the Bengali leader SJ ullah fought to keep Independence against the expanding British East India Company but was defeated by Robert Clive at the Battle of PL and by now there were 13 British colonies in America who didn't get on with their rulers in London stop that's a property in 1773 the Americans are throwing British te into the sea it's no longer property this is a lot of fun here comes the General George Washington Earl con Wallace let me give you the recap your response to Boston is a storm in a teacup it's simple taxes at the British levy on American colonies are getting too heavy and we have no say in your Parliament and this is how you want to make your argument Washington you once fought for the Brits in the Seven Years War but I see that it's too late to change you anymore get ready for a revolutionary war which we will win against the British crown you surrender to the revolutionaries at Yorktown we've lost America the Empire is diminished surely my Colonial career is finished no wait I'm fine after fight another war in Southern India at Mya corn Wallace this invasion is deeply insulting you've met your match in tiple sulan our strong and diverse Society will resist the onslaught of the EIC my Innovative rocketry will guarantee us Victory we see they end up a colony well that's that now I'm fed up of roaming time to head back to my home in Ireland is not your home leader of the Irish Rebels wolf toone that's right corn Wallace don't look so surprised Ireland's the first place the English colonized suppressed our culture and brought endless Slaughter time to send the Invaders back over the water the British responded with deadly force to uprisings like the Irish rebellion in 1798 Britain could manufacture weapons at huge scale and speed during the Industrial Revolution partly due to the wealth that was pouring into the country via the triangular slave trade but in the United Kingdom itself attitudes to the slave trade were beginning to change elato aquano is the name I Rose to fame with the book of my slav man and how I came to make a payment for my freedom I'm a self-made man I made England home and then had bigger plans abolition of the brutal slave trade with the wrers and the speeches I made hearts were sway not bad for a boy kidnapped from Nigeria with eloquence and agument highly Superior while the British public argued over the morality of slavery the government looked for new territory to make up for the loss of the American colonies a British naval officer called James Cook had mapped a vast continent on the other side of the world but like America 200 years before there were already people there I'm benal along I met British Sailors who said my land was called Australia which is not our name no we've been here caring for country for tens of thousands of years they kidnapped me so I could do translations I went to England and mediated for our nation but when I came home I left the colonist behind their diseases and their violence troubled my mind hundreds of thousands of British convicts and civilians went to Australia devastating indigenous people through persecution and kidnapping Justified as mission to to civilize and spread Christianity the government was finally persuaded to abolish slavery in 1833 but compensated former slave owners with huge sums of money this historic injection of capital paved the way for even more expansion feel the Euphoria for the reign of Victoria check out my great exhibition of Britannia Gloria ruled a quarter of the globe no Empire finer got rich from the Opium Wars against China forced most of Asia to buy our drugs and then we crushed the mutinous thugs in India no more East India Company I'm Empress now it's our national Destiny let's scramble for Africa a continent of loads of land and diamonds for me CLE roads the Empire needs Metals Ivory rubber with our European Rivals we've agreed among each other over who gets where which resources and jewels cuz we believe whites have a right to rule but your plan to colonize had a surprise in store you were soon embroiled in the boa War a white man's conflict on African soil with British concentration camps murder for the spoils I was in South Africa with Indian workers we organized a volunteer Ambulance Service which the Waring British found pretty hundy recognize me I'm MK gandi Gandhi's time in South Africa was crucial in forming his methods for nonviolent resistance he later returned to India to lead the struggle for Independence the pseudo-scientific racism of cesil Roads was common among white Elites at the time the B War had a terrible death toll but an even bloodier conflict arose between European rivals in World War one we answer the call from all over the Empire to stand together on enemy fire for our promise of Freedom safety respect or believing the empire was ours to protect from India Australia Canada West Indies Millions signed up hoping that in these sacrifices are common Humanity could remake the world after Wars and Sanity millions of people across the Empire made vital contributions to both world wars but Britain was now weakened in huge debt and needed help so many people took up Britain's invitation to live and work here with the Windrush generation still many other citizens resisted being part of British Le conflict movements for Independence grew across the world from the Easter rising in Island to the mama rebellion in Kenya the Empire's Retreat involved massacres and torture by British soldiers and provoked civil wars that continued to shape our world no one saw this more directly than gandi British Wars and trade were built on maps but when the Empire began to collapse the colonial lines they drew still remained dividing people and causing deep pain the India buy stun partition caused a million deaths in stoked nationalism which inspired my assassin it's hard to find humanity after centuries of Imperial brutality the scars are deep but many are covered let us witness how people survived and suffered instead of a myth of Pomp and Glory let us look for and listen to the real story oh is it over then [Music]