What factors contributed to the great war?

Some of the factors that contributed to the Great War are entangling alliances that committed the major powers to come to the aid of others if attacked. The arms race between the powers and industrialization of the powers. Another is the history of previous wars in Europe and the perception that wrongs needed to be righted. Territorial losses and gains from previous European conflicts remained a large problem.

a.tensions between the colonial elites and the backcountry men of virginia.

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