Original sentence: As a late arrival on the world stage, the German Empire was geographically locked out of the most valuable colonial regions in Africa and the Far East.Between emerging economic powers and the incumbent great powers, intense rivalries developed.Nations such as Great Britain and France maintained thriving domestic economies in the late 19th century through their control of foreign resources, markets, territories, and people
Edited sentence: As a late arrival on the world stage, the German Empire was geographically locked out of the growing and brutal expansion of European international interests.Between emerging economic powers and the incumbent great powers, intense rivalries developed, with little to no respect to the rights and/or liberties of the nations of which the foreign resources reside.In addition, years of exhausted home natural resources began to slowly upset the trade balance - which aided the shift from Mercantilism into early Capitalism.Nations such as Great Britain and France maintained thriving domestic economies in the late 19th century through their control and exploitation of foreign resources, markets and territories - including people(s)