The Suez Canal, which linked the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, meaning that British ships did not have to sail around Africa to reach India, a hugely important route for British (and French trading).
Pound, dates from being part of the British Empire
cocoa, palm oil, groundnuts
Nominally still part of the Ottoman Empire but administered by the British.
large profits from the slave trade
Greece, Rome, Turkey, Persia, the Ottoman Empire and Britain have all colonised Egypt at various times.British
Egypt stopped being a great power when they became part of the Persian Empire c.500BC.
Yes. Egypt has been part of numerous Empires, like the Hellenistic Empire, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Rightly-Guided Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbassid Caliphate, the Fatimid Caliphate, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Ottoman Sultanate, and the British Empire.
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you are therefore part of the british empire
Egypt became part of the Roman Empire in 30 bc
They were all part of the British Empire
The USA has never been part of the British Empire.