Neocolonialism is best defined as: a. a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies. b. a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the industrialized nations. c. a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial political and military control. d. a term used to suggest that poor countries should reestablish their colonial relationships with wealthy countries.

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