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Always love history.

I will add an argument, some of these territories they didn't control at all. They had official claims, but I don't think they could enforce any laws or rules for many of these places. And so just because they were considered european, all the world powers decided to agree to their claims and thus when they had to give up some of these territories, most of it were to greater powers then they were.