Which of the following factors did not contribute to the ability of the english to profit from their colonies in the new world?
a. their well-developed merchant class
b. the abundance of rare natural resources in their colonies
c. their previous experience with commerce and industry with other countries and aristocracies
d. the power and autonomy they afforded the british east india company

the answer is b. hope this !

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