Which best describes how wealthy merchant families such as the medicis influenced achievements during the renaissance?

a.) by supporting art, wealthy merchant families created an environment that also promoted cultural achievements.
b.) by supporting the church, wealthy merchant families created an environment that also promoted religious achievements.
c.) by supporting city-states, wealthy merchant families created an environment that also promoted cultural achievements.
d.) by supporting italy, wealthy merchant families created an environment that also promoted national achievements.

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

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