Polity · 1609 CE – 1779 CE
English Colonial Empire
- Peak recorded area
- 226,567 km²
- 1702 CE
- Data series
- 10
- 1700 CE–1700 CE
Overview
The English overseas possessions, sometimes referred to as the English Empire, comprised a variety of overseas territories and colonies that were conquered or otherwise acquired by the Kingdom of England before 1707 when the Acts of Union joined England with the Kingdom of Scotland and created of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Formerly Scots were excluded from English overseas possessions, but following 1707 they could participate in the expanding British Empire.
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Territory
28 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 1779 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
People
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Community Size | 4ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Intensity | 3ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Agriculture | 4ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing | 2ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering | 2ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Hunting | 2ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Husbandry | 0ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Jurisdictional Hierarchy | 1ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Political Succession | 2ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Class Stratification | 1ordinal1700 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
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English Colonial Empire is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.