Eli5 Why didn’t the Ottoman Empire expand more into Africa?
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Ottoman Empire was overextended already and needed to digest conquered populations and devellop their own lands first.
It’s better to colonise and devellop lands you currently control, before you do that lands further away.
That’s why Europe went to Africa, and not USA, Russians or Ottomans. Japan for exemple, could have gone to Africa, but they prefered to take lands closer.
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