D. More land. more land equals more power.
The action that finally provoked the United states into bombing Libya was the start of the Libyan Civil War which resulted in hundreds of innocent Libyan people being killed by radical Libyan terrorists
The major way in which border areas of the west were affected by the mixture of people is that a plethora of immigrants from all over the world wanted to expand to the west in order to settle--meaning that people from all backgrounds often fought over land and job opportunities.