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[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey! It took us a good hundred years to get to the global scale. We were limited by oceans until the late 1800s.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Fair, and the empire became the empire post-WWII.