During the riots that happen awhile back in Britain, an immigrant to Britain was being interviewed and she kept referring to the evilness of the British Empire; that's crap the British were no more evil than any other people. All people except for Eskimos, Inuit if you prefer, and Australian Aborigines along with a few other hunter gatherer cultures had empires at one time or another. The Sub-Saharan Africans were conquering and enslaving each other long before the Europeans arrived. The same is true for Asia and the Americas. To single out the Brits as particularly evil is ridiculous. They actually did quite a bit of good; they ended slavery in sub–Saharan Africa, united India, and built infrastructure all over their empire.
If you want to consider a particularly evil empire let's talk about the Aztec Empire of central Mexico. They were so brutal they did not need to keep garrisons in their conquered territories; they ruled by terror. They required their subject people to send their children to their capital to be sacrificed to Aztec gods as part of their tribute or suffer the consequences. The Mongols would kill an entire city, every man, woman. child, and baby if one individual of that city Offered any resistance.
Considering the current conditions in sub–Saharan Africa, I feel that they would have been better off if they had stayed a part of the British Empire, perhaps they could have modified their status to some type of self-rule within the empire. What they got now is not working well for them.
If you want to consider a particularly evil empire let's talk about the Aztec Empire of central Mexico. They were so brutal they did not need to keep garrisons in their conquered territories; they ruled by terror. They required their subject people to send their children to their capital to be sacrificed to Aztec gods as part of their tribute or suffer the consequences. The Mongols would kill an entire city, every man, woman. child, and baby if one individual of that city Offered any resistance.
Considering the current conditions in sub–Saharan Africa, I feel that they would have been better off if they had stayed a part of the British Empire, perhaps they could have modified their status to some type of self-rule within the empire. What they got now is not working well for them.
