9. Why did the British want to conquer india

The British, like other Europeans in Asia, starting with the Portuguese, wanted to displace the Arab and Middle Eastern monopoly over the trade in Asian products, spices being the most prominent, but textiles and natural produce of the forests also being significant.

Explanation: The British took over India due to the vast commercial and financial interests and opportunities within the region.

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