another reason I thought it might be Jefferson was that they seem to be focusing on diplomacy and Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase is an example of something that seems to fit into the diplomacy of the new game.
but in the case of, say, Chinese we really have no idea what any language in China sounded like 500 years ago. The pictograph style writing really prohibits us from knowing, because the pictographs don't change with the sounds, like an alphabet based writing system.
We actually do know to a limited extent, because there's a lot of classical Chinese poetry and all of the rhyming still works, so it means ancient Chinese sounded at least similar to modern Chinese.
Also in China a lot of literature was deliberately written in classical Chinese instead of the regular spoken language (like how most educated people in Europe wrote in Latin, except it went up until the 20th century instead of the 19th), so it seems reasonable to conclude that Classical Chinese that was taught is similar to authentic classical Chinese.
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