Question

why were big European power met in Berlin in 1885​

Answer 1

Answer:

In 1885 European leaders met at the infamous Berlin Conference to divide Africa and arbitrarily draw up borders that exist to this day.

Explanation:

Big European nations met in Berlin to hold a conference regarding the split up of the federated states of Africa. They wanted to split Africa into separate states in order to gain control over the continent's abundant natural resources for the development of their industrial sector.

Answer 2

Answer:

Seventeenth and eighteenth century merchants from towns in Europe began moving to countryside supplying money to peasants and artists pursauding them to produce for an international market