"If war was the most visible way that empires intersected, economic power was crucial to sustaining imperial control or trying to expand it," Burbank and Cooper (331). This case proves true for Western European empire building.
The same applies to China and Japan.
For China, multi-foreign affairs with outside nations took off towards the end of the Qin/Manchu Dynasty. The imperial intersect applies in the earlier stages whence China had to deal with "barbarian" forces like the early Romans of the Republic.
Japan 's foreign encounters started slightly earlier in the 16th century due to contact with Portugal. Early interactions with non-Japanese nations was only limited to China and Korea.
In the case of Europe, the intersections of Germany, Russia, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires collide, setting the early stage for World War I. Because of the advent of the Protestant Reformation, adding the discovery of the New World, alongside the American Revolution or the British Civil War, does that explain exactly why World War I primarily took place in Europe?
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