The term mouse fly is kind of a contradiction and one of the types of flies that brings the word fly in fly fishing almost as far away from something flying as possible - still surpassed by shrimp flies not to mention crab flies, but anyway...
One of the reasons Britain became rich was because the Industrial Revolution (factories and such) got off the ground there sooner. Britain had a large navy, and many colonies in other parts of the world, such as India, and Rhodesia.
Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. Britain gained tea, rice, spice and cotton from India and many other things from other countries.I think Britain wanted an Empire because they needed stuff like More taxes, more people for army's, more trade, more political power.ermany viewed empires as power, and wanted to part of it as Britain and France already has reasonably large empires and colonies. This rise to power by Germany was one of the cause leading to World War 1.