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No. Some European great powers, such as Austria-Hungary and Prussia had practically no overseas colonies, while some countries had large overseas empires without being great powers in the 19th and 20th centuries (The Netherlands, Portugual, Belgium). It was above all WW1 and WW2 that caused the decline of Europe.

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