The fact that they can learn to do greater things when they are little and also they will practice their skills
The Catholic Church strongly opposed the spreading of the heliocentric theory because it meant that the holy book of Christianity, the Bible, was wrong, and that what they were propagating for centuries that the Earth was the center of the universe and that everything circles around our planet was a lie. This was going to make a big damage on the credibility of the church and the skepticism towards it would have grown more and more. The church, considering it had the power, was using all measures possible to stop this, so lots of scientists found themselves imprisoned, hanged, burned alive, killed brutally...
<span>Confucius encouraged education and valued study over intuition. Following his structure of society, he believed that the young should learn from the old and study classical texts.</span>
"<span>a. overcrowding and growing drought" would be the best option from the list, since Indonesia is mostly a series of small islands which makes territorial expansion impossible. </span>