Which sentence best describes why European powers competed for new colonies in Africa and Asia in the early 1900s? Europeans wan
ted to demonstrate their power. Europeans wanted more territory to prepare for the threat of war. Europeans wanted to help people in colonies become more European. Europeans wanted to make more accurate maps of the world.
The European became much more powerful and industrialized than the Asian and African nation. To show their power and superiority of the nations, they aims to gain new colonies