5/9 But is it a multiple choice question?
What is the story so i can help?
Mark wrote a Hellenistic gospel, primarily for an audience of gentile Greek-speaking residents of the Roman Empire. Jewish traditions are explained, clearly for the benefit of non-Jews. Aramaic words and phrases are also expanded upon. <span>Alongside these Hellenistic influences, Mark makes use of the Old Testament in the form in which it had been translated into Greek.</span>
Based on the dictionary definitions of "conduce," the most precise definition for ‘conducing’ as it is used in paragraph 2 is:
C. Definition 2 (to contribute).
The answer is A: to inform readers about the grandfather's role in creating beet sugar. The speakers say they don't know what grandfather's invention did, but they inform about the result of him managing to turn the beet sugar lighter somehow, which he was able to sell to many buyers, from different places. <em>His creation of beet sugar</em> and and its selling brought him money that made possible for him to buy his freedom.