Second, the sun never sets on the empire, (Spanish: El Imperio en El Que Nunca Sepone El Sol, Portuguese: o império no qual o sol nunca se p? E) refers to an empire where the sun shines at any time. It is usually used to describe a prosperous empire with colonies and hegemony on seven continents at that time. In history, there are two countries called imperishable empires, namely, the Spanish Empire and the British Empire.
3. The term "empire that never sets" was first used to describe the Spanish empire in16th century. It comes from the words of King Carlos I of Spain (that is, Emperor Carl V of the Holy Roman Empire): "In our territory, the sun will never set."
4. After the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Britain gradually replaced Spain as a new maritime hegemonic country and began to expand its overseas colonies. After that, Britain defeated its strongest rivals, the Netherlands and France, in the Anglo-Dutch War and the Seven-Year War, and established its maritime hegemony. 18 15 Britain's victory in the Napoleonic wars further consolidated its position as an international political and military power, and the industrial revolution made Britain an undisputed economic power. The Victorian British Empire entered its heyday. At that time, about 400-500 million people in the world-that is, about a quarter of the global population at that time-were subjects of the British Empire, with a territory area of about 33.67 million square kilometers, accounting for a quarter of the total land area of the world. It spread from the British Isles to Gambia, Newfoundland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Malaya, Hong Kong, Singapore, Myanmar and Malaysia. The international order under British hegemony is called "peace under British rule". The global map of the British Empire published in Britain usually marks the territory of the empire in red, which can clearly understand the global influence of this huge empire.