The answer is C. The<em> basic education</em> provided by the colonists had as primary purpose to help the Protestant children to learn <em>how to read</em>, so they could <em>read the scriptures and all the teachings in the Bible</em>. But any further education was rare, and the girls only learned writing and arithmetic, besides reading. They boys usually received more education.
I love lucy and the lone ranger and the red skelton show. (I watch I Love Lucy all the time. Amazing and funny show!)
A, B, and C. Mesopotamia was in the middle of a desert, and the only reason it was farmable was because it lay between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which flooded yearly to water the ground.
For question 1, Andrew Myrick said " So as far as I'm concerned, if they are hungry let them eat their own dung (dung meaning poop) or grass." That got a lot of people angered.
I'll answer the other 2 shortly.