Within a few days after our departure from [the american indian] town, the people began to die very fast. in some towns about some the disease was also so strange that they neither knew what it was, nor how to cure it. source: thomas harriot, 1585 based on the quote above, what factor contributed most to the decline in the american indian population following the arrival of europeans to the new world? a. american indians were poorly equipped to fight off european diseases. b. droughts and food shortages contributed to many american indian deaths. c. competition for land with europeans contributed to many violent conflicts. d. lack of technology contributed to the enslavement of native populations.

1 and 3

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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

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