Britan had land nearly 40 times the size of itself!
needed new trade routes as Spain+Portugal had more then them
Methods on how to build empires
Force
take over
steal
the most important thing is to have the biggest empire
Spanish Empire
controlled lots of land in the Americas.
Spain + Portugal controlled most of the trade routes
England had to find new trade routes because Spain+Portugal had most of them and England needed a bigger empire, the trade routes were only reachable by boat.