21. Louis XIV’s goals as described in the passage above are most similar to those of A
The Protestant Reformation
B
The Catholic Counter Reformation
C
The Scientific Revolution
D
Vasco da Gama

Hello. You did not submit the text to which this question refers. However, from the historic context, we can consider that "The Catholic Counter Reformation" is the correct answer. That's because, according to history, Louis XIV was an extremely Catholic king and he believed that his mission in life was to defend the Catholic religion and get wealth and servants for the church. For that, one of the main objectives of this king was to fight the protestant reform. For this, he wanted to conquer different territories and force the peoples of that region to convert to Catholicism and reject Protestant concepts. This goal is closely related to the goals of the Catholic counter-reform, which sought to combat Protestantism.

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

a.) are both appointed for life