If the instant communication of today had been available when european nations were exploring the world, how do you think it would have affected events

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this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.