Britain followed the Greek colonization model rather than the Roman empire model.

Evidence

The British nation proved to be adept not at the Roman art of empire building but at following the Greek model of colonization. Instead of conquering and imposing their own law upon foreign peoples, the English colonists settled on newly won territory in the four corners of the world and remained members of the same British nation. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 351

Categorization

• DEFINE: The Roman-versus-Greek empire typology is a load-bearing conceptual distinction for Arendt’s whole argument about why nation-state colonialism proved structurally incapable of absorbing non-national peoples — the exact tension the Islamophobia field inherits.