The term "Middle East" may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office. However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to "designate the area between Arabia and India".
Oil should be it since we get it from the middle east
Well its a little bit of a mix of 'C' and 'D.' I would go with 'C' because they were more fearful of destruction than of luck.
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