Both pilgrims and puritans established new world colonies to
follow separatist beliefs.
benefit the church of england.
practice their religions freely.
avoid an impending religious war.

Pilgrims and Puritans established new world colonies to: practice their religions freely.

Both of these groups ran away from Europe due to the religious prosecution by the Catholic Church (at that time, the church was extremely corrupt and involved too much in the government) . These groups created their own government in the ships that they're in and implemented it when they established the new world colonies in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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

ww1 weapons: tank. tanks were used for the first time in the first world war at the battle of the somme. they were developed to cope with the conditions on the western front. the first tank was called 'little willie' and needed a crew of 3.