I believe the answer is A
It dried up.
North Africa used to be a fertile grassland, even swampy in some spots, 12,000 years ago. By 1000 BC (actually quite a while before) it had dried up into what is the the largest desert i the world: the Sahara.
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was forced onto the remnant Mexican government which caused the war.
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