What basic principle of mercantilism was disproved by Adam Smith in his book, The Wealth of Nations? Group of answer choices

that workers would stop working if they were not provided with a minimum wage

that foreign goods were always inferior because British factories were better

that there was a fixed and limited amount of wealth in the world

that the rich could only get richer if the poor had a way to improve their own lives

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

because it !

(b) britain had a much larger navy than the u.s.

(d) the u.s. had a small army compared to britain.