Spain, Portugal, Britain, France and even the Netherlands and Belgium have many colonies overseas, but why does Germany, which is blown to the sky by many domestic "German fans", have almost no overseas colonies? In fact, it is also very simple, two reasons.
The first reason is that Voltaire, a Frenchman, said to the Germans: The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy nor Roman, nor imperial. No matter how we analyze it, it is not as convincing as the "old acquaintance" of the Germans, the French.
This sentence actually reflects the fact that Germany at that time was too scattered, could not show any great strength, and the so-called Roman name was just a false name. In fact, hundreds of years ago, the area where germans lived in central Europe was measured in proportions, equivalent to the size of today's Sichuan, but there were hundreds of small kingdoms, nothing more than county-level kingdoms, which were completely different from today's Germany.
When the Latins Columbus discovered the New World of the Americas, there were actually several kings in the hundreds of kingdoms of the Germans who sponsored the Latins to open up colonies, but the distant ocean was not so easy to develop, not to mention that there were various factors such as Indian resistance and disease, and there were many places that needed to be spent, and they could not compete with such powerful opponents as Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and France, so that the follow-up financial resources could not keep up, and slowly fell. Coupled with the fact that the next 30 years of religious wars smashed the entire German land to the bottom, it was even more unable to fund the explorers to open up overseas colonies.
The second reason is that many people do not know what the geographical situation of Germany is, it belongs to Central Europe, the sea is extremely lacking, sailing to the ocean has to go around a large circle, extremely inconvenient, completely inferior to the Latin countries that occupy the time and place, and their navigation experience is not as rich as the Latins; of course, the Latin Italy, which also has no sea access to the sea in the Mediterranean, is not spared, and it is at this time that it began to decline, and handed over all kinds of initiatives to the pioneers of the Great Navigation Age.