Railroads in the south were few before the civil war. by the time it was over, most were destroyed. what does this map demonstrate?

A. railway building was a priority in the South during and after Reconstruction

B. little progress was made in repairing the structural damage of the Civil War

C. more people focused on building new factories over repairing railroad lines

D. the only new railroads built were those connecting the North to the Sout

railway building was a priority in the South during and after Reconstruction

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