Which sentence best describes why European powers competed for new colonies in Africa and Asia in the early 1900s? Europeans wanted 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.

B: Europeans wanted more territory to prepare for the threat of war.

Explanation:

Europeans were always scared that they weren't the best in the military, so they wanted to find more colonies for more strategic positions and size.

The economic principle that is most observable in the success of merchants such as Levi Strauss was the supply and demand principle

The reason for this was that he was looking for gold at a time where it was limited and where a lot of people wanted to have gold but weren't willing to go and look for it in the wilderness for example.