Which of the following best describes the articles of confederation?
a set of rules created for governing the american colonies
a set of rules for governing the northwest territory
a new constitution that restructured britain’s government
a new document that created the first us government

Explanation:

The first constitution of USA was an Agreement between the thirteen colonies  and is commonly known as Articles of confederation. The  Articles of confederation was ratified by the thirteen colonies in 1781. It contained thirteen articles, conclusion and signatures of the people who passed it. It was drafted to establish the function of the national government after the colonies had declared independence from the Britain. Later in 1789, it was replaced with the US constitution.

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