Why weren’t Germany and Italy as aggressive in overseas colonization compared to countries like Britain, France, Portugal and Spain?

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Why weren’t Germany and Italy as aggressive in overseas colonization compared to countries like Britain, France, Portugal and Spain?

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International trade. The colonization wasn’t the objective, instead it was a by-product of securing international trade routes ports and other assets. Britain was in India via the East India company who took over the various small states in India and merged them into a large colony and put in place an army to keep it all in order, it was only later that it was added to the empire.

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