Computers & the internet were invented by the British. How has it become so "American?"?
What??? By the British? Wrong!! The US Department of Defense (DOD) had a hand in creating what we now know as the internet. It started out as ARPA, or ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency), eventually renamed to DARPANet (Devense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1971. That was when the DOD worked with a company called BBN (My daughter worked for this company (a backbone provider) as a network engineer in later years under a different name and knew the history well). Development began in 1969, or that's when BBN won the contract to do the work. BBN developed the @ sign for using in e-mail, which came much later. But they worked with the DOD to develop communications, which became IRC (Internet relay chat), which is still in use today. The DOD was still the sole owner of IRC until I think the early 90's. It's a chat program this still quite widely used. I use it myself. BBN became part of one of GE's operations, then split out on their own, unfortunately, under yet another name "Genuity". They did quite well for a while. It didn't help when they built and moved into very high-tech, state-of-the-art facility nearby in Massachusetts (Boston area). Not long after, that part the industry started having problems everywhere. High paid employees with inflated salaries because they were in such demand at the time, gradually started getting laid off over a 2-3 year period.
British American colonies connected or isolated to global networks?
In 1750 it could take up to 6 months to cross the Atlantic ocean. So consider you wanted to send a representative to go in front of the British Government and present a case for you. Up to 6 months to get there, up to 6 more months to get back plus the time it takes to get a decision which may or may not be in your favor. So up to 13 months just to find out if you plea was heard and if it were decided and if it were not in your favor now you get to do it all over again. Would you feel isolated?
Leif Ericsson did not establish colonies in North America. He and other Norsemen visited North America. They settled there, but not permanently. They might have established permanent colonies if they had not met with hostile native people, i.e. Skraelings, as was reported in the sagas. Instead they explored a little, and collected timber. This was valuable to them because it is not available in Greenland or even Iceland. I can see some serious impediments to establishing trade with the Skraelings too (*). So it is unlikely that the Norsemen had much contact with the natives of North America.Add this to all the other answers, also correct, and diseases just didn't have much opportunity to spread.(*) Probably visits from Greenland to North America were irregular in time and location, so only casual trade would have been possible. What would the Skraelings have wanted from the Norsemen? Probably metal tools. But those were scarce and expensive in Greenland, as iron had to be imported from mainland Europe. It is unlikely that a North American native would be casually carrying around the bale of furs he would need to buy an iron knife. (The main exports of Norse Greenland to mainland Europe were furs, walrus ivory, eider down, and the like.)
The British were not yet an unstoppable empireSome ice, some desert, and a small slice of India In 1776, the British were one of several Great Powers in Europe who were all roughly equal in power. These were them, France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia. Below them were a few middle powers including Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. Out of these strong nations, the British were known for their naval prowess but had one of the weaker and smaller ground armies - France was the expert here. As a result, when the 13 Colonies declared independence, the British were forced to ship soldiers 3,000 miles away and feed and supply them - no mean feat back then - to fight in an environment they were not experts in, ground wars. So this explains why they had difficulty against just the colonists alone. Now let's look at the international situation. 13 years before the Revolution, Britain and Prussia defeated France, Russia and Austria (there were also smaller allies on both sides) in the 7 Years' War. In the aftermath, French colonies from North America to India were seized by the British, which upset the balance between the Great Powers, frightening much of Europe. The British also spent a huge pile of money, which started them on the path of taxing the colonies which started the war in the first place. As a result, when the 13 Colonies declared independence, France was eager for an opportunity to even the score with their rival. Soon after the war began, France was bankrolling the American bid for independence. In the first year, France supplied enough muskets and uniforms for 30,000 soldiers (Larger than the initial size of the Continental Army) and 10 pounds of gunpowder per soldier. Then, France joined in the war openly with a navy that was at the time, roughly equal to the British one. They were eventually joined by the Spanish and Netherlands who brought even more money and soldiers to the table.tl;dr The British Army was never that strongIt was half of Europe and the USA vs Britain
American revolution?
In common usage we refer to the "The American Revolution" as the action formulated by the 13 Colonies in 1776. However if you were to ask someone from Mexico they pay refer to their revolution of 1910. The definition of Revolution is, a drastic political or social change that usually occurs relatively quickly. So, the american revolution, especially in lower case, could refer to many events occurring in the Americas resulting in drastic political or social change including the Cuban Revolution, the industrial revolution, prohibition, integration or even the Sexual revolution, as a social revolution of the 60s and 70s. There's currently a revolution brewing to recognize and act on the affects of Global Warming.
"were"An incomplete list, form one time or another:Settler Colonies:Canada, Ireland, USA, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Australia, Falkland IslandsBritish Raj: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Afghanistan (kinda), Conquered territories: Malaysia,Nigeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Jamaica, Nigeria, Namibia, Rhodesia, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Cyprus, Tanzania, Namibia, Ghana, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Palestine/Israel, Belize, Guyana, Trinidad and TobagoExtraterritorial Possession (Don't know if these fit your criteria): Hong Kong, Weihai, Singapore, Gibraltar.There are a whole mess of islands in the Caribbean and other places that I'm leaving out, but this gives a good overview of all the countries that were in the British Empire. Some places like Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, are not classified as settler colonies per se, although they were forcibly settled by African slaves and later Asian coolies after the native population had been conquered and exterminated.
May I get some facts of the united states on war world 1?
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American Revolution?
It often feels like it. Our two political parties have very different ideas as to what these United States should be and I don't believe we can be both. It is amusing to me that our differences are all around issues which have been faced by other Countries already. In Europe, as I understand it, there is movement away from social spending because the Governments have recognized the funding imbalance it creates. In China(the 'Communists') they have very little social spending because they can't afford it. I find it interesting that very few people have done the actual math, if you add up the budgets for Government Health Care Spending(or many other areas of spending) you find we already spend more per capita than many Countries with Universal Coverage. Go Figure! Some people feel the 'Bill of Rights' was a pick & choose buffet. Each enumerated Right will spark pages of debate. I love my land as much as any Patriot, but it is for the Constitution I have Passion, and I have sworn to support & defend it against all enemies, foreign & domestic. In the end though, the only geographical divide that kind of exists is between the Urban & Rural, and that is not solid. Any civil unrest could not really coalesce into battle lines, so I think we would just have to work it out. We might go into a 'rough patch' sometime soon and perhaps it will be called a Revolution, but not all out war, I pray not!