It happened baecuase the french has stakes in the economy and they also didn't want comunism to spread.
<span>The 17th century saw Sweden as an European "Great Power" and one of the major military and political combatants on the continent during the Thirty Years' War. By mid-century, the kingdom included part of Norway, all of Finland and stretched into Russia. Sweden's control of portions of modern Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany made the Baltic Sea essentially a Swedish lake.</span>
The Land and Its Early People. Prehistory – 1519.
Age of Contact. 1519-1689.
Spanish Colonial. 1689-1821.
Mexican Rule. 1821-1835.
Revolution and Republic. 1836-1845.
Early Statehood. 1845-1861.
Civil War and Reconstruction. 1861-1870.
Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads. 1850-1901.
I believe the answer is C. "northwest of the Persian Gulf"
