>>512477855
Even before colonialism we were wealthier than the Spanish. England has always been a wealthy country. There has never been a point where it has been poor. Even in much older periods it was an important part of Europe.
We are not a shithole like you. You have always, for all of history, been a shithole.

>>509576187
plus Europe was already the richest continent before colonialism
colonialism was the consequence, not the cause, of European superior technology