Quote Originally Posted by Atraphoenix View Post
Check your memories this helps a bit:

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The World before the Napoleonic wars.....


19th may be,
I leave 16th 17th for Spanish and Portuguese domination in the world...
but (17th?) and 18th 19th centuries in Europe French language & Culture were ruling and french revolution swept the Europe.
until 1900s diplomatic language throughout the world was French and English would not be so much a dominating Language and Culture without US. English Language and Culture started to dominate the world after the defeats of France in Napoleonic Wars and mainly after World wars......
and if Axis had won the world you can be sure that the world should be speaking German now....
Dominate as in increasing.

Over that period:
1) Britain defeats the Spanish Armada and later develops as the preeminant naval power in the world.
2) Spain loses its colonial holdings after the Napoleonic Wars.
3) Britain because the first industrialized power in Europe and stays that way for a good amount of time.
4) Escape Unscathed during the Napoleonic Wars...
5) Britain ends up with the largest empire the world had ever seen.

British culture ends up dominating North America, Oceania, South Asia, a good chunk of Africa, etc.


The point still stands, Longbows are hyped because of English culture.