I picked Spain; British Imperialism focused a lot more on cooperating with local polities and had other industrial powers to contend with.
Spain had more or less absolute control over her colonies and went unrivaled for a time.
The scale of British control was greater, but the scope of Spanish control was greater than the British.
Where's Rome and the Caliphate and Mongolia?
Butterflies mean Spain wins this by default. Of course, by the same logic, the most influential empire must have been the first thing we referred to as such. Sargon of Akkad?
Meh, I don't know if this is the most effective method of determining the most "dominant".
Maybe by language? I don't know if that's the best either though.
(1200 million English speakers
530 million Spanish speakers
274 million French speakers)
Where's Rome and the Caliphate and Mongolia?
Meh, I don't know if this is the most effective method of determining the most "dominant".
Maybe by language? I don't know if that's the best either though.
Yeah, English has a lot of folks speaking it for usefulness, not actual cultural reasons. Spanish has a lot more resilience.If we are going to by first lanuage spoken, Spanish actually leads over English and French.