What was significant about the olmec civilization?

a)the olmec civilization left a great deal of written records behind.

b)the olmec civilization had a great deal of influence on neighboring and later cultures.

c)the olmecs developed from a combination of cultural groups including the aztecs and mayans.

d)the olmecs practiced western religions such as roman catholicism.

a.  

women in ancient egypt had many legal rights, including the right to own property and businesses.

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