Select the reasons why europeans wanted an all-water route to the orient. ottoman turks had captured constantinople. ships traveling water routes could carry more goods. traders refused to carry silk or cinnamon. extremely high prices were caused by the difficulty of moving eastern goods to europe. they had ships that desperately needed employment. the italians had a monopoly on mediterranean trade.

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

no every country is held to the same degree as others just some member countries such as the usa and germany are more economically sound so the need to show there support to all others  

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