Why did the united states economy become the blueprint for international economic structures following world war ii? a. all countries were declaring themselves democracies. b. germany declared the united states the world leader. c. the united states actually had no influence after world war ii, because it was recovering from the war. d. at the time, the united states supplied the world with food, goods, and money, giving it tremendous influence over other nations.

i think it would be reparing roads  

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