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Sort of. There was a decent bit of naval development which enabled the initial slave trade and colonization of the Americas, but they didn't truly leapfrog India and China until they used the spoils to reach dramatic capitalist development, industrialization, and purposefully direct research and tech into millitary and naval development so as to become uncontestable. This turned trade from being somewhat dominated to fully dominated and uncontestable.