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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Germany as a unified nation didn’t exist until after 1871. Up until then t was a bunch of smaller, mostly independent nations. That only changed after Prussia conquered the northern half of what would become Germany. Then France invaded Prussia and the south German States joined in to thoroughly curbstomp Napoleon III

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