HISTORY PPTDONE BY: DHIVYAH, AVENTHIKA, HA

& NEEVETHA

CONTENTS•THE WORLDS GREATEST EMPIRE

•THE LION’S SHARE: THE BRITISH EMPIRE

IN 1918

• IMPACT OF THE EMPIRE ON BRITAIN

•LIFE UNDER THE BRITISH EMPIRE

THE WORLDS GREATEST EMPIRE

• BRITAIN HAD THE WORLD’S GREATEST EMPIRE 100 YEARS AGO

• ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION REGARDED BRITAIN'S QUEEN VICTORIA AS

THEIR RULER

• IT HAD BECOME HISTORY’S LARGEST EMPIRE, COVERING A QUARTER OF THE

WORLD’S SURFACE—SO LARGE THAT THE “SUN NEVER SET” ON IT.

• BY MID OF 20TH CENTURY IT BEGAN TO SHRINK AND OTHER COUNTIES GAINED

INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN

• TODAY BRITAIN HAS NO LONGER A EMPIRE