As he thought about the hieroglyphs in Thothmes' and Ramesses' names, Champollion realized their significance. It went far beyond the names themselves and gave him an insight into the entire system of hieroglyphic writing. For the names revealed that hieroglyphs were not simply representations of sounds. Nor did they have an exclusively symbolic meaning, as Thomas Young and other scholars had long believed. Instead, they were a combination of the two.
—The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin
Based on the passage, what did Champollion discover about the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone? Write one to two sentences explaining his discovery in your own words.
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Ответ:
Champollion discovered the whole way of hieroglyphic writing. He found out that heiroglyphs are a combination of letters/symbols
Explanation:
Ответ:
There were holy wars.
Explanation:
The Holy wars, or The Crusades was a holy war between Muslims and Christians. Now what started these wars was that both of these cultures believed that the a piece of land called Palestine was theirs. They also believed it to be holy. So this is why there is a holy war.