How did a shift in thinking about the natural world during the renaissance contribute to the start of the scientific revolution? renaissance thinkers shifted from an emphasis on latin to greek. scientists shifted from thinking about the world to trying to understand how it functioned. in the middle ages, scientists began to understand god as more of an observer. europeans shifted from thinking about how lands should be conquered to how they should be ordered

answer; people where able to travel across the u.s.a faster than any other mode of transportation,travel time was about a week,from coast to coast

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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hope this meaning spain btw

written by alan ward and published in 2003. ward is a historian and was a professor at the university of connecticut.

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