They were driven by their homelands.
Effect-They conquered others + created powerful states up north.
<span>c. the electorate
</span><span>b. potential voting population
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Purpose of given paragraph in the text is to depict the phenomena struggle for existence.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Rapid population growth promotes rapid agricultural and industrial development. And for accommodating such huge population all the natural habitats of wild life is being cleared which accelerates habitat destruction and environmental degradation.
Those who take hunting, gathering as their source of livelihood they suffer lot more due to the deficiency of their food. Gatherers do not get fruits or woods and meats for hunters as well. Because man desperately destroying vegetation and in effect wild life is also destroying. So, to be in world you have to struggle for your existence.
