What were the main causes for this switch in religion and what time scale are we looking at?

I have never read anything describing similar types of entertainment at any period in pre-Communist Chinese history, but I assume they must have had some sort of large-scale popular activities.

I was re-reading Game of Thrones, and the Reed family fostered my curiosity.

• A lot of verses and lines are repeated so would have it been told in song or with accompanying music?

• Would there have been accompanying theatrics?

• Or would people just have their own tablets and read it like a book?

We know that students in ancient Greece (I'm thinking Athens, here) studied rhetoric, oration, and various other subjects. But do we know the actual subject material? Did they have textbooks, or was it mostly taught orally? If the latter, was any of it ever written down? Has that knowledge been lost?

I grew up in the US and went to high school in Australia and only briefly did history (which I regret) but it seemed to my teacher made it out that the Kokoda trail campaign made by the ANZ soldiers to be the last stand before the Japanese would make it into Australia during WWII. But in 'The Pacific' the US soldiers are greeted as the heroes that saved Australia at Guadalcanal, how true is this? Was it more of a joint effort between the two than one or the other?

When the topic of gay marriage vs. the Bible comes up, many people mention that in the past, people tried to use the Bible as support for racism, segregation, or whatever other discriminatory things like that. Today, they say the Bible explicitly speaks against homosexuality. What evidence did people use to support the other discriminatory claims?

Also, are there any other historical tactics that would have been viable during the Persian Gulf War?

From what I remember from college history class, it seems that the Germans became very interested in ancient European civilizations before other countries, and did a lot of archaeological work around Greece and Babylon, among other areas. I'm curious as to what about the young German state spurred that interest.

I can find very little information about this attack. I am looking for the names of people present, those that died, details of the attack, etc.

I mean what where the main things divinding them

Also, is this a unique situation or did other colonial territories find themselves in similar situations?

Has it started in the Industrial Revolution, with the rise in the numbers of immigrants? If so, did they actually have more freedom after they came to the US than before?

Based solely on the import duties imposed by the American government at the time (in contrast to the nothing by the UK, and more mild ones by parts of Europe), I feel like there would be a more strict interventionism by it? How wrong am I on that?

If it's completely unrelated, then where, or why?

I know the Quasi War doesn't reach the level of the Civil War or WWII but in hindsight it does seem pretty important.

Didn't the Act come from Congress rather than the Adams administration unlike many controversial policies from Lincoln and Roosevelt?

If the answer is that historians' views of Adams have been softening in recent years why was it previously so "hard?

Edit: To elaborate, off the top of my head I would say policies like Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus or FDR's Executive Order 9066 which lead to Japanese internment. While these acts are often cited as low points in the respective presidencies they don't seem to weigh as heavily on overall assessments of their administrations.

I know trenches were not used as much in WW2 as they were in WW1, but after the trenches were "done being used" in either fights were they immediately filled in or were they just left as they were to slowly be filled in over time?

Secondly did people go in and steal all of the various metals from the barbed wire I between the trenches or even anti-tank obstacles, or did the different military's go back and collect their items?

A friend (who I consider knowledgeable in the general sense) told me that in general, swords from the past just weren't as sharp as many people would think.