Queen Victoria
Victoria reigned for 64 years (1837-1901), the longest reign in British history and it was the reign of Britain’s great age of Industrial Expansion, Economic progress and, especially, empire conquest. It also was the great period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence.
In the 19th century the empire included India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, large parts of Africa, and many smaller territories.
Victoria Empire Britain detained the uncontested position of world economic and political leadership and was in the Victorian Age that the Industrial Revolution succeeded. The Industrial Revolution changed all the spheres in the country but specially the economic sphere since it developed the production means and it introduced new ways of production and trade such as train, phones, railways, etc. It began in England because England was the strongest nation of the time with a strong and developed economy and it was in the transition from an agricultural to a modern industrial society which was facing a rural exodus, population left the field to go to town in order to find better life and work conditions.
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