Which statement provide the best explanation of the term columbian exchange? a) people on continents with very different climates, cultures and lifestyles suddenly meet and exchange crops, ideas, and diseases. b) families with long lost relatives are reunited after being separated for a generation or more. c) civilizations that had been at peace before suddenly start figthing over the ownership of land they used to share. d) people who are descended from christopher columbus work together to understand and control worldwide diseases.

c.) the country needed a stronger central government.

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