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Also constant war necessitating more and more complicated systems of debt that both necessitate more war to pay of that debt but also allow financing large naval expeditions to loot not just the new world but the entire Indian ocean. Even after all this they are still in constant conflict with each other so the exploitation of the rest of the world accelerates to keep up.
I doubt it, India was also in constant war as was the Middle East
Europeans just had a giga shitload more money and more resources to finance the wars, so they won
You still need the permanent war though:
yea but that's like air
Its cheaper than two continents of gold and silver but its not "like air". Permanent war. Always on the home front, not the frontier. Western Europe ground on for like a millennia without any empire establishing itself.
same with every other place save China (but still sometimes even China)