Which region of the country is a center of manufacturing, transportation, and agriculture?

1 northeast
2 south
3 midwest
4 west

In the United States, the Midwest (3) region is known for its focused on the agriculture industry, which reported sales of billions of dollars every year, especially of wheat, soybeans and corn. Also, in the Midwest you can find some cities with the biggest manufacturing industries, like Chicago. Likewise, the transportation through rivers, lakes and land gave this region an excellent condition to develop its commerce.

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