Question

why did the big european powers meet in berlin in 1885

Answer 1

To distribute African countries among them..

Answer 2

The colonial European powers met in Berlin in 1884-85 where they negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa. Or simply we can say to distribute African colonies among themselves (European colonial powers).

As the European colonial powers began to colonize the Africa in order to feed their industries with abundant natural resources of Africa, there began clashes between.The rivalry between British and France lead Bismark to intervene and he called the meeting in Berlin where the colonial powers negotiated claims of territory in Africa which were accordingly mapped and formalize