The colonists responded to the british policy with a a0 on their products and services

The colonists responded to the British policy by boycotting their products and services.

Explanation:

In 1765, the British parliament passed an act stating that the colonists must pay taxes for lodging British soldiers which the colonists considered useless and none of the colonists was interested in paying tax.

On other side, the British was in need of money to pay for the war debuts that faced. The parliament and the king believed that they had the right to ask the colonists to pay tax, But the colonists refused and started to burn British products and boycotting their service.

i'd assume india mainly because of how isolated japan was.   plus it is a whole china away.

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