They were called "The Empire that never had a sun set". The answer you're looking for is "They had so many colonies"
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they still needed to go to war to fight?
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The rich were literally on the riding backs of the poor, oppressing them and making them serve the rich.
In 1493, Pope Alexander VI settled the conflict between Spain and Portugal over the newly discovered lands outside Europe in the Treaty of Tordesillas. It was the Pope who had to settle the argument because Spain didn't have enough military power in the Atlantic to fight the Portuguese, so they preferred a diplomatic settlement. The Pope divided the lands along an imaginary line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands; the lands of the East were to belong to Portugal, and the lands of the West were for Spain.