Your article is quite interesting, you did a great job of listing egypt's geographical limitations, which highlights how blessed britain was in contrast, with its coal seams, forests, rivers, etc. However, you gloss over the role of britain's economic imperialism, indeed you just barely mention it the middle, and at the beginning and end of your article you dont mention it at all. Now if the west had succeeded in intervening in Japan, and preventing the meiji restoration and other modernization reforms, almost certainly the Japanese would also be living i... (read more)
Your article is quite interesting, you did a great job of listing egypt's geographical limitations, which highlights how blessed britain was in contrast, with its coal seams, forests, rivers, etc. However, you gloss over the role of britain's economic imperialism, indeed you just barely mention it the middle, and at the beginning and end of your article you dont mention it at all. Now if the west had succeeded in intervening in Japan, and preventing the meiji restoration and other modernization reforms, almost certainly the Japanese would also be living i... (read more)