Challenge: Make the British Empire Conquer the World

Conquer the world?
I don't think there'd be much support for doing that.

A United Kingdom of Earth is also silly.

I could well see a world government eventually developing out of no American revolution though. Its why I regard it as the point where history went wrong, not particularly because Americans are so bad but because it quite messed up any chance of this happening.
 
In reality, it is a challenge. The whole world... there is a lot here. The medieval claims it had in France would be a good start. If it had control of a good chunk of Europe, this would alarm Spain, (Castile and Aragon) and they would pay much more attention to the continent, LEt portugal grow quietly, and colonize earlier. You'd have to work in early an English/Portugal union, shortly if you want the colonies to follow more fluidly into the sphere. There's a start I figure, the rest of the continent is kinda fragmented, and such.

I wasn't trolling, I was being sarcastic, as in being funny, did I offend you? If so, I am sorry.

But to be a dick :D, yes, I believe the french killed jesus, I have a Quebec flag with an X over my heart. I believe the french killed the Savior, as much as I believe Miss Teen SC, in that Americans need to send maps to South Africa, to help with the fact, that more and more Americans can't find their country on a map.
 
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Okay, I got a bit carried away earlier:D. But to approach this realistically, Britain must choose between being a continental power based on mediaeval claims, or being a global maritime power. It cannot do both and therefore cannot conquer the world. At best, Great Britain could probably have added a few desolate regions of North America, a larger share of Africa and probably the Dutch East Indies (wouldn't be too difficult later on). However, all of this would still count for nothing in the two World Wars because Germany and Japan concentrate their power in one area, whereas Britain's power was spread across the entire globe.
The closest Britain could come to 'world domination' would be by reorganising the Commonwealth into a united trading bloc and military structure like a hybrid of NATO/SEATO and the EU.
 
Would a *very* short American Revolution and the death of Washington, meaning a King is brought in, help bring the nations close together enough that a dynastic marriage and reunion is possible? Say, between an alternate Queen Victoria and someone in the 1840s, after American has conquered their present-day OTL territories in the Continental U.S.? (Britain can always seize Alaska and Hawaii some time later.)

Of course, then you'd have the problem of abolishing slavery, since the British had already done so, so...yeah, that might be tricky. Someone's free to offer their own challenge based on that, though.
 
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