Mark the statement if it accurately describes magellan’s expedition.
a. the expedition was successful–it reached the indies by sailing west.
b. magellan was killed when he tried to enslave the inhabitants of the spice islands.
c. magellan found a strait that led through the southern tip of south america, from the atlantic to the pacific.
d. the expedition did not conduct trade along the way.

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