They were also both killed by the same person. They were very different because they fought on opposite sides of the Trojan War. Achilles fought to kill the Trojans, while Hector fought for peace between the two countries. They were different in that Hector was a prince and Achilles was not.
Britain now wanted to acquire land in Africa was to help protect her other territories from being taken over. The British were convinced the other countries wanted to take over control of India. To ensure they did not have easy access to India, the English bought control of the Suez Canal.till convinced the other countries wanted India for their own, the British also took over South Africa. Ships could travel all the way around Africa to reach India. Before the opening of the Suez Canal this was the main route to India.
History, British Colonization. In 1886 and 1890 Britain reached agreements with Germany that delineated a boundary between British territory in Kenya and German territory in Tanganyika (part of present-day Tanzania) to the south.n 1895 the British government formally took over the territory, which was renamed the East Africa Protectorate. Its western neighbor was Britain s Uganda Protectorate, and the border between the two lay just west of the site that would become, in the late 1890s, the new city of Nairobi.