Empire Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Colonial empires=== {{main article|Colonial empire}} [[File:Portugal Império total.png|thumb|right|200px|All areas of the world that were once part of the [[Portuguese Empire]]. The Portuguese established in the early 16th century together with the [[Spanish Empire]] the first global empire and trade network.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Conquerors-Portugal-Forged-Global-Empire/dp/0812994000] ''Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire'', Author: Roger Crowley, Publisher: Random House; 1st edition, year: 2015</ref>]]{{Unreferenced section|date=April 2019}} In the 15th century, Castile ([[Spain]]) landing in the so-called "[[New World]]" (first, the Americas, and later Australia), along with Portuguese travels around the [[Cape of Good Hope]] and along the coast of Africa bordering the southeast Indian Ocean, proved ripe opportunities for the continent's [[Renaissance]]-era monarchies to establish colonial empires like those of the ancient Romans and Greeks. In the Old World, colonial [[imperialism]] was attempted and established on the [[Canary Islands]] and [[Ireland]]. These conquered lands and people became ''[[de jure]]'' subordinates of the empire, rather than ''[[de facto]]'' imperial territories and subjects. Such subjugation often elicited "client-state" resentment that the empire unwisely ignored, leading to the collapse of the European colonial imperial system in the late 19th through the mid-20th century. Portuguese discovery of [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] in the New World gave way to many expeditions led by [[Kingdom of England|England]] (later [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]]), [[Spain]], [[France]], and the [[Dutch Republic]]. In the 18th century, the [[Spanish Empire]] was at its height because of the great mass of goods taken from conquered territory in the Americas (nowadays [[Mexico]], parts of the [[United States]], the [[Caribbean]], most of Central America, and South America) and the [[Philippines]]. {{Clear}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page