[Yahoshua]

I decided or the British empire as it is the most recent empire to have had the largest influence on the course of world events. Not even Soviet Russia rivaled British influence throughout English colonization.

The British Empire stretched from the East Indies to the 13 American colonies, From South Africa to Egypt, from the British territory of Palestine to Iraq, from India to Hong Kong, the influence of the slow collapse of the British empire has definitively shaped for more than 300 years the events of world politics.

From the division of the middle east along geographic landmarks as opposed to tribal territories, to the independence of the American colonies and of India and the East Indies, to the cessation of Hong Kong to China, to the independence of South Africa and Egypt.

England has shaped the nations that influenced politics of the recent past (50+ years) modern politics (Iraq, Kashmir, West bank and Gaza Strip, South African Apartheid, and the loss of Hong Kong) and although the direct influence of the British Empire is now gone, the remains of that empires' policies will continue to influence the affairs of nations in the decades to come.