Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:54:31 | 5 comments | 🔒 Locked
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Historicaly speaking what lead the British faustian spirit to dominate the waves?
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:59:59 No.17450691
>>17450676
Thousands of years of people sailing to that island created a genetic memory of needing to sail to new lands. Plus being an island in of itself let them focus on boats when boats became really important.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:00:51 No.17450694
to get away from the wife and her cooking
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:35:05 No.17451042
>>17450676
>being surrounded by water
>even most population centers inland are riparian
>trade with the continent requires sailing skill to go from continent to Britain
>dominant fishing and maritime culture
>some of the earliest colonies were offshore fisheries
>leaders like Lord Trafalgar not afraid to use unorthodox tactics
>strict military discipline and unified command structure
>inherited elite class system but also several ways to advance socially via meritocratic achievement
Anonymous 01/23/25(Thu)06:38:27 No.17452117
>>17450676
(((merchants))) moving out from Netherlands
Anonymous 01/23/25(Thu)07:01:52 No.17452142
Mostly the destruction of their rivals. When the french, dutch, spanish and portuguese declined, the power gap allowed the bongs to expand unopposed. Also they used a fuckton of corsairs, chink style