The development of England as a nation-state, which began soon after the war of the roses, affected the development of its empire abroad negatively. At this time, England was still fine-tuning what it meant to it to be a nation-state and how it would define its selves, when its imperial project began. Because of this England was not a nation-state of likeminded people at all instead each of England’s colonies had been created for separate and often conflicting reasons. In fact, although many colonies were founded based off a need claimed by the voyagers for religious freedom it was not actually religious freedom instead, it was freedom to practice a specific religion. This caused conflict with other colonies created for religious
The development of England as a nation-state, which began soon after the war of the roses, affected the development of its empire abroad negatively. At this time, England was still fine-tuning what it meant to it to be a nation-state and how it would define its selves, when its imperial project began. Because of this England was not a nation-state of likeminded people at all instead each of England’s colonies had been created for separate and often conflicting reasons. In fact, although many colonies were founded based off a need claimed by the voyagers for religious freedom it was not actually religious freedom instead, it was freedom to practice a specific religion. This caused conflict with other colonies created for religious