It can be inferred from the passage that in proposing the "three-part chronological division", scholars recognized which one of the following? A. The circumstances of colonial women's lives were defined by a broad variety of social and economic factors. B. Women's lives in the English colonies of North America were similar to women's lives in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England. C. Colonial women's status was adversely affected when patterns of family and community were established in the late seventeenth century. D. Colonial women's status should be assessed primarily on the basis of their economic function in society. E. Colonial women's status was low when the colonies were settled but changed significantly during the era of revolution.