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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the GDP which

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technically means gross domestic product but sometimes it's fun to pretend [Pig dancing]

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otherwise and here's your question based on GDP not German dancing pigs the

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wealthiest country in the world in the year nineteen hundred was one in here

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essential answers.... alright so before we dive into the

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wonderful world of gdp we need to know how we're measuring it after all you

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can't expect to pay for a cuppa in Great Britain took again we're going to be [Doll sitting by a cup of tea]

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using Geary Thomas dollars basically a hypothetical of international currency

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used to compare current view value throughout history nifty right don't let

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your employer paid with them anyway now back to our regularly scheduled

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programming first and foremost we know that there was a whole lot of

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imperialism going on which means that compared to the big players at the time

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the Emperor of Japan wasn't really all that impressive weighing in at around [Japan flag appears]

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fifty two thousand sorry Emperor Meiji and while will hand the second Germany

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was definitely beginning to enter the world stage as a power player its

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beginnings were far too recent and far too humble as a time to be a contender

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in the content unless we're talking about the who can be most dapper contest [Wilhelm II appears on stage]

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in which we likely found early in the winter yeah seriously look at that

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mustache but it around 162,000 Wilhelm's growing nation wasn't quite up to snuff

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literally what about France? well we know what had a pretty darn impressive empire

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of its own but let's take a look at a map of its colonies from 1900 not bad [Colonies of France appear on map]

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not bad at all too bad their gdp at the time though was hovering around 116,000

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mark which leaves us with our final answer just for fun let's take a look at

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the British Empire is compared with a French whoa looking promising and what [British Empire colonies appear]

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is our impressively expansive empires GDP ringing in at king ding ding 185,000

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we have a winner great britain has just come off two incredibly successful

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centuries of industrialization it would take a few more decades for their empire

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to really start shrinking but for our 1900 flavored purposes ski is the [GB flag shrinks]

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obvious choice say easy peasy lemon squeezy [Woman eating slice of lemon]

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