> Similarly the UK and France become major economic powers by enslaving half the globe with their military. Their great "tech" and such come after the colonies, not before.
It was technological advantages that enabled them to enslave half the globe with their military.
No, the European colonial powers had enormous technological advantages over the societies they subjugated. Just because both colonizer and colonized seem primitive to us doesn't mean that there wasn't an enormous gap between them.
It was technological advantages that enabled them to enslave half the globe with their military.