What are the answers for these questions?

Why did other countries want to have a part in what was occurring in southwest asia?

Acivilization exists for several hundred yeaars, developing its own language. such a civilization probably has been: a. farming corn b. suffering from a lack of contact with the outside world. c. isolated by mountains or some other physical barriers. d. starving from lack of trade.

Look at the map above. which of the following statement is true