History of Roleplaying and Roleplaying Games

>>3221961
How broad do define the term: role playing? Chess was used to simulate battle for aspiring generals. Monopoly gave users the role of corporate tycoons in order to teach the woes of capitalism.

>>3221961
D&D itself was based on Wargaming, which is essentially Role Playing as a military commander and using dice and paper and stats to decide outcomes of choices.

Further back, and we really need to decide what constitutes Role Playing like
>>3221979
Has said.

>>3221961
>are there any instances further back in history of people roleplaying

There were these jews saying shit about a magical zombie jew who rose from the dead, and people roleplayed a lot around this figure, they keep playing the game these days.

>>3221961
HG Wells wrote a book about historical wargames using miniatures in 1913.