The British Imperial Century The British imperial century took place from 1815, the end of the Napoleonic Wars until the year 1914, the beginning of World War I. During this century, the British empire stretched all over the globe extending its language, its culture, and its economy throughout Africa, India, Asia, and the Chinese and Ottoman empires, and further. For the most part, the British preferred to rule its empire informally for reasons such as finances, fear …showed first 75 words of 1617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1617 total…unrest and problems caused rumors to fly that Europeans invented the plague and other such disasters to simply gain power for the British. People were dissatisfied, they sometimes resisted, and they sometimes died. Though a global diffusion may have had some good results economically, as a whole the devastations that arose from the imperialist century led down a road straight to the first world war and destroyed institutions and peoples that would never be regained.