Where did the British military/empire attitudes originate?

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We all came from somewhere etc. I was speaking to someone about where the British elites attitudes originated, for example all the militaries giants over the last 1000 years or so. If we were once rag tag savages of sorts living off the land at at what point did we start breeding people to the caliber that we've seen in the past and present.

Basically a history of the British empire. Who started it all was it Vikings, Romans, Angles, Celts, Normans etc. Did one man come in and transform everything, was it to do with the reformation or the school system, the universities, and if so who started it all. What's the story.

 

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Successful leadership of a tribe requires certain characteristics. If the children of the leaders of two successful tribes breed, then their offspring ought to have double the characteristics.
Thus was born the concept, in various places around the world.
From there it eventually became all about being born to the right families, in the right places, going to the right schools, mixing with the right people, and all that elitist stuff.

Next question?

That's pure evolution, no divine intervention?

 

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Watch Simon Schama's History of Britain, explains things brilliantly.

Will do looks good, I'll rip the audio into an MP3 and listen while driving or whenever.

 

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Just LOL that we didn't go for a Culture Victory.

Noobs.

Always lowering the tone magnolia.