The Naval nature of Western European powers allowed them to capture territory around the world.
Britain, France, Spain and Netherlands:
These western European nations therefore formed huge empires across the world a result of having these huge navies. This was in opposition to Russia which had a land based empire and so did not establish much colonies around the world.
In conclusion, the navies of western Europe allowed them to establish sea based empires and Russia had a land based empire.
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