I think it means you either embrace greatness or resent it, but it could also mean Emotions like love, fear or even rage can fuel a person or destroy it.
If you are talking about them trying to expand in to present-day Canada, then it brought renewed conflict with Britain (war of 1812)
if it is towards the west, i guess it hampered technological development, because most people were moving west through the trails, instead of staying to help build up the economy
hope this helps
It would be in "Medicine" that one is most likely to find English words with Latin roots, since the earliest physicians wrote and interacted mostly in Latin, and left behind a catalogue of Latin medical knowledge. <span />
