[JumpCrisscross]

> the economic center of the world has been India and China , they didn’t feel the need to go anywhere

You're describing two modern states that encompass geographies that were constantly at internal turmoil. (Including as empires [1].) It's like asking why the Germans were late to the game in colonising: they're a land power and were in a constant state of internal turmoil.

"They had enough" flies in the face of human history and European colonialism itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_empires_and_dyna...

[manquer]

I didn’t mean to say They had enough to mean they were satiated , it was supposed to mean they had enough in their own regions to fight , win and enjoy over they didn’t need to go overseas to acquire riches .

Neither region is a utopia in history or today, simply there was enough land and people and other resources within, so they viewed their region to be the world, there was no economic impetus to colonize or enslave from far off places is my point .