Referring to their role as major players of trade routes in Asia and the indian ocean.
They managed to fulfill this roles due to their superior exploration technology and weapons. The European developed the sea exploration technology at least one century befor the East Asian countries and around 400 years before the South Asian
There is multiple reasons. One of those reasons being that those nation's were extremely Catholic. So all these counties were Catholic religion based and their idea was that they needed to spread the faith and religion. It was to them their lives calling and duty. Britian starting spreading out as far as over seas to get out and let the people know and the other nations felt they needed to catch up and started to look at it as a competition instead of the team effort. They believed the more they soreaded the faith out the more God would reward them. That's one of the main reasons that those counties spreaded out, to find economic growth and find their faith.
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Peter Minuit was the 3rd Director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626-1631. He founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638.
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