Question

which excerpt from the riddle of the rosetta stone shows a cause - and - effect relationship?
o \the group traveled up the nile in two boats, stopping along the way to copy inscriptions on temples and monuments.\
o \a few experts challenged champollions methods and clung to the notion that the hieroglyphs had a purely symbolic meaning.\
o \scribes generally used the hieratic form when they were writing on papyrus, and hieroglyphs when they were carving inscriptions in plaster or limestone.\
o \once they had mastered the three kinds of egyptian writing, nineteenth - century scholars had the key to more than three thousand years of egyptian history.\

Explanation:

• Analyze each option:
• Option 1: Just describes an action (traveling and copying inscriptions) without a clear cause - effect.
• Option 2: Mentions a challenge to methods but no cause - effect relationship.
• Option 3: States a writing - medium relationship (hieratic on papyrus, hieroglyphs on plaster/limestone) but not a cause - effect in the sense of one event leading to another.
• Option 4: The cause is “mastered the three kinds of Egyptian writing” and the effect is “had the key to more than three thousand years of Egyptian history”.

Answer:

“Once they had mastered the three kinds of Egyptian writing, nineteenth - century scholars had the key to more than three thousand years of Egyptian history.”