·Desert is mostlikley correct due to the continent being located near the equater.
The answer would be B !!!!
Whatever they said I suppose if it works
They were interested for two reasons , they were in a power battle where they both wanted to be more powerful , as a result of this they both wanted to have influence over as many places as possible. The other reason is that having influence over certain places can give powerful allies which means in the worst case scenario they have more people on their side. Hope this helped :)
