This state was one of the wealthiest British Colonies, the first state to secede from Union before the Civil War , and home to such cities as Charleston and Columbia

Answer : South Carolina

This answer would be c

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.