<span>Germany was quite late in the empire building that characterized the 19th and early 20th centuries. In Africa, the Germans colonized what is now Cameroon, Tanzania, Uganda, and Namibia. In the Pacific, they colonized portions of what is now Papua New Guinea, Nauru and the Solomon Islands. </span>
No, because there wouldn't have been a big idea about freedom and the rights people should have, that's the simplest it gets, if it needs to be more complex I'm sure someone else will answer it