kinda a banking thing, goes back to the Medici vs. Papal Banks. The Spanish then wanting a place next to the sun easy luck by finding and raping South Americas deposits.
The Brits had their own way by siphoning off the Papal ad Spanish gold that came to close to their boarders.
Also being rather poor compared to other countries at the time it could slaughter its population in the industrial age (1700) Germany was still too catholic to be modernization by large scale industry. Only the threat of starvation and threat of defeat by French and Russian and Austro-Hungarian military caused their rapid advancement and "thing" with perfection in production. Basically the past 5000 years have been about robbing your neighbor or enslaving whatever peoples you could to produce goods with them or from the land and resources they owned.
USA by Freemason / rotschlid were more crative made their fortune with debt, printing paper and lying about what they owned.