What enabled European nations to expand their power in Asia and Africa

The creation of steam engines, the telegraph, and machine guns

Explanation:

I believe these three things helped European nations to empower Asia and Africa, but you should double check before you completely trust it.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

julius caesar turned the roman republic into the roman empire by coming in and taking the "dictator" role during the time of a civil war (elites vs lower classes) winning battles and reputation, then declaring him dictator for life

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