Which sentence best describes why european powers competed for new colonies in africa and asia in the early 1900s? europeans wanted to gain natural and human resources. europeans wanted to demonstrate their power. europeans wanted to people in colonies become more european. europeans wanted to make more accurate maps of the world.

The New Imperialism was a phase of imperial development for the European Countries, Japan and the United States of America during the late 19th and even early 20th centuries. Those countries, at the time, dedicated themselves to develop their empires with technological improvements and advancements. Back in that Era, the West  had almost all of Africa and parts of Asia. The struggles revealed to continue nonetheless and ended up revealing an economic desire for new syndicates, sources and more.

In the end, it was always a race for resources, natural or human.

Which leads us to the

A) Europeans wanted to gain natural and human resources.

a. the astrolabe could determine the correct latitudinal location of the ship