One reason france sent explorers to north america in the early 1500s was to

One of the main reasons was to find gold, claim territory for FRance

Explanation: France like other European powers was actively involved in the exploration of the new world. This was the high point of the era of exploration.

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

i believe it to be a democracy