Why did leaders choose 36 30' as the compromise line

Settled the conflict that had arisen from Missouri's application for statehood. Neither North or south wanted each other to have a majority in the Senate by upsetting the balance of slave to free states. The compromise consisted of one Missouri admitted as a slave state, two main admitted as a free state, and three no more to slavery allowed in the Louisiana purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri. A cause of the Civil War. Also known as the compromise of 1820, 36/30 line.

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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