One primary cultural effect of the sheet music published in Tin Pan Alley was to:
A. create a sense of national identity through a common art form.
B. offer job opportunities in the arts to African American musicians.
C. provide opportunities for musicians to tour the nation.
O D. show that immigrants were valuable contributors to American
culture.

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.