It was at this point that Arab military expeditions Motion_directional into North African regions west of Egypt were first launched , continuing for years and furthering Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the spread Dispersal of Islam .

The US sanctions which prevented Preventing_or_letting trade with the United States ( which had occupied Control the Philippines around the same time ) resulted in Causation Japan furthering their expansion in the territory of China and Southeast Asia .