British Empire's Impact On Economics, Politics And Society

In the 17th century Great Britain started to expand in competition with France and established settlement in North America and the Indies. British empire had a big impact on economics, politics and society. The British Empire clearly had many different parts from where to get goods from such as, Canada, New Zealand, Austria and South Africa, that helped the Empire´s economy to increase rapidly.
Canada provided goods like salt, wheat, fish and eggs that allowed the empire to get different types of foods. South Africa contributed with gold, diamonds, skins and fur that helped to increase the empire´s economy by the trading of the goods to other empires. Based of the profit bars Great Britain had a very high profit while India had a low profit, Great Britain had a GPD of $9,100 approx. and India had a GPD of $900.
An imperial octopus represents John Bull, which is a symbolic personification of the British Empire whose tentacles are placed in a different land with names of different regions. Each tentacle has a hand at the end, which shows that England had a hand in every part of the world. Canada, Egypt, India, Jamaica, Capes Colonies, Irelands and many others belonged to the British Empire and they are represented as lands that are being dominated by the imperial octopus, which shows that the empire was very powerful and that it had a large