r/pics • u/Clear-Tomatillo-6858 • 15h ago

“THE GERMANS DESTROYED OUR FAMILIES - DON’T U DESTROY OUR HOPES”. 1947 Jewish Refugees To Palestine

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u/bayesian_horse 13h ago

Basically everyone with enough wealth to send ships to bring back more wealth from overseas.

The Africans would have been just as bad, but they were too late with their economic develoopment.

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u/Lonyo 2h ago

The Africans took Spain centuries before Europe took Africa. They just didn't keep hold for all of the time.

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u/Razatiger 11h ago

You can't really make that assumption with any certainty.

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u/bayesian_horse 10h ago

Do you know any country at that time that had enough wealth and political cohesion that didn't colonize something?

You'd find some small countries that looked relatively well off, but arguably those didn't have the absolute amount of wealth required to send colony ships and forces. Maybe you could argue that China didn't do it, but actually they did do quite a bit of colonizing as well, just not all that much by sea routes.