At the beginning of the 20th Century, Britain ruled over a quarter of the Earth's surface and its people. Britain was a nation whose trade and industry dominated the world economy, her territories encircled the globe. But it couldn't stay that way, the world was changing and the Empire was going to have to change with it. The fall of the British Empire is a story of gradual decline, yet as history teaches, the fall of Empires creates progressive changes for the better.At the beginning of the 20th Century, Britain ruled over a quarter of the Earth's surface and its people. Britain was a nation whose trade and industry dominated the world economy, her territories encircled the globe. But it couldn't stay that way, the world was changing and the Empire was going to have to change with it. The fall of the British Empire is a story of gradual decline, yet as history teaches, the fall of Empires creates progressive changes for the better.