I think it was because Public education would require large amounts of tax dollars.
Answer:
1400's to the 1600's
Explanation:
It was a time when the European states began taking and exploring the world, creating the rise of the Western world
Advances in transportation increased profits for farmers because they lowered the cost to ship crops to market. Before such advances, taking crops to market used to be very expensive, but a cheaper way of making food reach the final consumer allowed the farmers keep a wider difference in their favor.
Due to the study of contemporary paleolithic societies, a shift in historical thinking has occurred where people nowadays consider people during the Paleolithic era to have been far more culturally advanced as the "Original Affluent Society", whereby they survived not on scarcity, but a refined mode of subsistence, living from what they could find, and not overeating.