Comment by WalterBright
9 years ago
That happened as well in S. America, but S. America did not become a superpower. There's something else at work.
9 years ago
That happened as well in S. America, but S. America did not become a superpower. There's something else at work.
South America, unlike England, did not have captive colonial markets, that it could sell its mass-manufactured goods to. South America was the captive colonial market.
S.A. had their revolts against colonial rule as well as the US.