How did the impact of the French differ from that of the Spanish in the New World? ООО
The French played a greater role in converting Native Americans to Christianity.
The French played a greater role in securing religious freedom in the New World.
The French played a greater role in establishing the fur trade with Native Americans,
The French played a greater role in curbing the expansion of Dutch colonies in the New World.
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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