I would say A.) They were more interested in exploring the world around them.
Adding the story would have been a good idea for others to help you.
At a time when trade and transport were made primarily by water, and bearing in mind that European powers needed to have free access to the rich colonies, and only by sea could they communicate with America and the colonies, the ocean and the seas were the higways of the past. Therefore, access and control of the sea routes, was the only way to have control over the colonies, their riches; and become the dominant power in the world. In addition, the wars between France and Great Britain were not only for trade or wealth, but for power itself, to decide who would dominate the seas.
A. ambiguity means like blurred lines between two things. so if somebody had both or neither reproductive parts, they would be considered intersex,
or the lines blurred between
Attempt to overthrow Castro regime in Cuba with the Bay of Pigs.