1. Write a one-page essay explaining how the Western Hemisphere is culturally diverse due to Native American, European, Asian, and African influences. 2. Include a thesis statement giving the main idea of the essay.

3. Include at least four paragraphs of three to five sentences each.

4. Use at least three of the following for each culture to give evidence of the culture's influence in the Western Hemisphere: food, language, religion, and artistic expression.

5. Include at least three details on each culture that influenced the Western Hemisphere: the Native American, European, Asian, and African cultures.

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

the safahids used force when persuasion to convert from being a sunni muslim to embrace shi'ism was not effective. they also persecute shi'ites who have different views from their imposed teachings.

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