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I think the key to this question is ocean going vessels. The big colonisers the English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese were all seafaring nations. This
by rusk 10y ago
I think the key to this question is ocean going vessels. The big colonisers the English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese were all seafaring nations.
This was the platform from which the global colonisations of 1400 onwards sprung.
What were the peculiar conditions that caused these guys to take to sea in the first place and why didn't their Asian counterparts do likewise?
I think the Arab world can lay claim to some conquests - Spain for a while anyway ...
- throwaway29292 10y agoI think this is an important question, why did the European nations have more success in colonization? Was it something inherent in the nature of Arab/Asian cultures that made them less willing to travel oceans and capture new territories? They have coastlines and trade routes too. Can it be explained by history/climate/geography/religion?