Two factors that contributed to America's expansion of territory after the Revolutionary War are;
1. An increase in population - In 1800 the population were 5.3 million and in 1850 the population increased to 23.2 million. For this reason expansion of the territory was required to facilitate the population.
2. Manifest Destiny - this is the ideology that it was the destiny of American people to populate the entire country.
They needed to find new food sources
Justinian the Great restored power and glory through his reforms, particularly the complete revision of all Roman laws. He also recovered large stretches of land around Byzantine borders, especially in the Western Mediterranian basin.
The second option, Kant believes that space and time are just forms of intuition, and our perspective on the world.