How might japan’s invasion of china have affected relations between japan and western powers?? pls answer it’s worth 40 points

This may have established a lack of trust afterwards.

d.summerains, the last one

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire