In places that weren't at least nominally controlled by China, that is. (ie Vietnam, Korea etc.)

As the question title states, how similar is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum to the old Roman comedies it is based on? I know that several of the characters in it (Senex, Miles Gloriosus) are stock characters from roman comedies, but is the plot similar?

Or, to put it another way, if you took a random roman playgoer from the Roman Republic, somehow taught him how to understand english, and showed him Forum, would it seem familiar to him?

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In Book VI section 17 of Tactius' Annals, Rome is described as having endured an economic recession akin to the 2008 Financial Crisis. The Roman state reacted to the crisis by "distributing 100 million sesterces..." to the various banks located in the Roman empire and fixing the interest rate for a period of 3 years.

Are there examples of similar financial crises occurring in the mid to late republican periods in Rome? If so, how did the Roman state respond?

I know the claims that any Nahuatl believed such a thing in the first place are dubious (or outright fictional according to some), but I'm more concerned with how the idea of it being that specific god came about. Was it a mistake by the Spanish? Does it have something to do with the period he arrived in? Or does it have something to do with his appearance/technology/etc.?

How did the states get so polarized that liberty to some meant slavery while to others it meant abolition? What events lead up to these opposite ideas of liberty?

It would seem that traditionally john of patmos and the apostle john were thought of to be the same person. But more recently that they are probably not.

Beale in his short commentary on revelation says it was most likely john the apostle due to the authors authority in the church and that it was highly unlikely that any other could john could have written it.

However Leonard Thompson in his book of revelation commentary states that early thinkers such as Dionysus of Alexandria states that it cannot be john the apostle due to his stylistic and linguistic changes compared to the gospel.

Essentially what im asking is if there is any kind of consensus about the authorship of the book of revelations

One of the things that confused me about Dieppe is how it seems like Germany would’ve just launched a large counter offensive that would’ve overwhelmed the roughly 10,000 Allied soldiers even if a foothold was established. What were the Allied plans had they actually captured the beachhead? Were there large amounts of soldiers in Britain that were put on standby so they could swiftly reinforce a foothold? Did the Allied just plan on holding a small heavily fortified area and not immediately expand?

Let's assume Britain, England. At what point would it be difficult to communicate but possible, and at what point would we simply be too different to communicate in any verbal way.

Full disclosed this is part of a question to better understand my homework.

Were the 63 clauses written in a way that benefited the Barons first and foremost? I think it was because I believe during this time period the barons wouldn't really be thinking for society as a whole.

I know that the Magna Carta was written up after the Articles of Barons. Which themselves were written up only after John agreed to meet with them after London was captured by the Barons. The barons mainly got upset with the crown because of the scutage tax John was enforcing on them.

I just finished reading "generals die in their beds" and in it, the narrator describes how drinking rum helped him cope with the killing. This got me wondering how often drugs might have been used in the trenches.

There is a myth that Lucky strike cigarettes got their name from each pack used to soldiers containing one joint, the "Lucky strike". I kind of doubt the truth of this, but it ties in with my question

Movies had taught me that China meant Middle Kingdom. The app I'm using to study Chinese just broke down the characters for America, and it's Beautiful/Good Kingdom. How did America get this name? Was it based on America's reputation in China, or did the character Mei just seem like the closest sound to America?