This task is about writing a correct answer for the reading comprehension task. Based on the information provided in a given passage, you should identify the shortest continuous text span from the passage that serves as an answer to the given question. Avoid answers that are incorrect or provides incomplete justification for the question.

Passage: Following the success of season one, the second season was moved up to air in January 2003. The number of episodes increased, as did the show's budget and the charge for commercial spots. Dunkleman left the show, leaving Seacrest as the lone host. Kristin Adams was a correspondent for this season. Question: What year did season two of American Idol first air?
2003

Passage: Much of the cuisine of former Ottoman territories today is descended from a shared Ottoman cuisine, especially Turkish cuisine, and including Greek cuisine, Balkan cuisine, Armenian cuisine, and Middle Eastern cuisine. Many common dishes in the region, descendants of the once-common Ottoman cuisine, include yogurt, doner kebab/gyro/shawarma, cack/tzatziki, ayran, pita bread, feta cheese, baklava, lahmacun, moussaka, yuvarlak, kofte/keftes/kofta, borek/boureki, rak/rakia/tsipouro/tsikoudia, meze, dolma, sarma, rice pilaf, Turkish coffee, sujuk, kashk, keskek, manti, lavash, kanafeh, and more. Question: Turkish and Greek cuisine are descended from Ottoman Cuisine, along with the food of what other regions?
Balkan cuisine, Armenian cuisine, and Middle Eastern cuisine

Passage: The early settlement was often subject to attack from sea and land, including periodic assaults from Spain and France (both of whom contested England's claims to the region), and pirates. These were combined with raids by Native Americans, who tried to protect themselves from so-called European "settlers," who in turn wanted to expand the settlement. The heart of the city was fortified according to a 1704 plan by Governor Johnson. Except those fronting Cooper River, the walls were largely removed during the 1720s. Question: Beside European nations and Native Americans, who else attacked the Charleston settlement?
pirates