TE A Global Power
Fill in the blanks with the following verbs. You have to put them in the simple past before!
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In 19th century, Queen Victoria
the Oueen of Great Britain. But she
also ---
-*--* over India, Canada and Australia because Great Britain
find new markets for its products. Consequently, Great Britain
to build the
largest empire. Among this empire, India
special, it was called The Jewel in the
crown because it ------ a rich country in raw materials,
Great Britain ---- --> raw materials : cotton, tea, sugar from these countries. In
exchange, it
manufactured goods to the colonies : cotton cloth, locomotives,
machine tools. Thanks to the colonies, Great Britain
-- richer and
lifestyle, language and religion to the colonies,
On this empire the sun never set because it was so large that the sun was always shining in
one of the colonies.
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