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England and India trade
During the 1600s Queen Elizabeth I developed a trade between England and India. English then became the main language when trading because they had to understand each other. However, some words in British English meant different things in Indian English because India has two main languages. Bengali and Hindi. So there became two versions of Indian English. Binglish and Hinglish. -
Triangle Trade
During the 17th century, the slave trade began. The main part of it was called the triangle trade. Ships left Britain with guns and manufactured goods to arrive in west Africa to exchange that for African slaves. Then the ships sailed to the Caribbean and traded slaves for sugar, tobacco, and cotton. That was then delivered to England and got traded for guns and manufactured goods. This then created the triangle trade. -
Australia
In the late 1700s, 'The First Fleet' arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney), Australia. 'The First Fleet' was a fleet of eleven ships, which held around 780 people on board. The people who were sent on the ships were mostly criminals that had commited a crime in England and was sent to Australia, and could not come back. Farming was a big issue because the English farmers were not used to the Australian farming techniques, so many English criminals nearly starved to death.