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Poland wasn’t into colonizing. The country wasn’t overpopulated yet and the elites were very rich from grain exports anyway, so why bother competing with other
by badpun 5y ago
Poland wasn’t into colonizing. The country wasn’t overpopulated yet and the elites were very rich from grain exports anyway, so why bother competing with other European powers for the New World?
- hef19898 5y agoPoland as a nation didn't exist until the end of WW1. Difficult to colonize when you don't exist as a nation.
- badpun 5y agoI’m speaking about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which existed during the first stages of colonisation, and in which Poland played the dominant role.
- prepend 5y agoSame reason why Germany didn’t colonize much, they didn’t exist.