What was the significance of the halfway covenant in new england? allowed women to vote in local elections gave church membership and political rights to children of puritan church members granted church membership to native americans gave political rights to mixed-race children?

The first answer is correct. The Halfway Covenant allowed the children of unbaptized Puritans to become themselves baptized and, thereby, allowed to have political and church rights and benefits. The unbaptized parents, in comparison, had no rights in the colonies and localities whatsoever.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.