"to win and incite the natives of the country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true god and savior of mankind, and the christian faith." --charter of the colony of massachusetts bay, 1629 this quote from the charter of the massachusetts bay colony is reflected in
a) the missionary work of john eliot and the establishment of "praying towns."
b) the execution of three wampanoag indians and the outbreak of violence in "king philip's war."
c) the banishment of quaker settlers from the massachusetts bay colony and the hanging of four quaker preachers.
d) the passage of a law in 1659 prohibiting the observance of christmas

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

the answers are a b and d