Why weren’t Germany and Italy as aggressive in overseas colonization compared to countries like Britain, France, Portugal and Spain?
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“Italy” was once *Empire of Rome*. The very dictionary defintion of “colonization”. By Exploration Age, both countries were busy actually forming a proper nationstate from their quadrillion citystates and feudal subjects, so adding more migration problems weren’t as high on their list. Late 19th century was also quite busy with new wave of industrialization, building infrastructure – electric lines, railways and telegraph poles, schooling workforce and inventing technology ate all sorts of budgets.
When they did start to show interest in overseas riches, it was a bit too late already; most of the stuff was claimed.
Which they responded to about 50 years later with massive World Wars.
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