Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | March 30, 2025

[u/AutoModerator]

Previous

Today:

Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.

[u/Gankom]

It’s the last Sunday of March, and Spring rains have truly swept in to drizzle over my part of Canada. Wherever you are out there, enjoy a moment to sit down and relax with some fantastic history. We truly have a wide variety for you to browse through. Don’t forget to check out the usual weekly fare, any special threads, upvote your faves, thank the authors and enjoy!

• MegaThread: Truth, Sanity, and History

• Hi! I'm Joe Street, author of Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party and a historian of the San Francisco Bay Area. AMA! Many thanks to /u/Joe_Street!

Tuesday Trivia: Islam! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!

• The Thursday Reading and Rec!

• And the Friday Free for All!

META!

• Dear mods, flairs and contributors - what is your favourite answer on this sub you yourself have written, and moreso why?

• Post-Deletion Comment Visibility

And that’s a wrap once again. I come to the close and prepare to vanish into the rain once more. Stay safe out there comrades, keep it classy, and I’ll see you next week!

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Several-Argument6271 answered Is is true that modern English nobles can still be traced back to the Norman rule?

• /u/Shanyathar wrote about Did they Market the New World?

[u/KimberStormer → u/Gankom]

Did they Market the New World?

A great example of what seems to me to be a fine question, downvoted to zero...why??

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/tedecristal wrote about Why is the number Ï€ (pi) called that?

• /u/thefourthmaninaboat answered What was the structure of WW2 army?

[u/thefourthmaninaboat → u/Gankom]

Thanks!

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Consistent_Score_602 wrote about Is it historically true that secular countries are less violent than religious ones?

• I want to learn more about capitalism, socialism, communism, fascism and the likes and am currently reading books about the subjects. I would love to learn more about the USSR/Stalin, the third Reich and Mussolini and their stances to these subjects. Can anyone recommend videos/books or explain it?

• Why was assassination not more of a thing?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Steelcan909 answered Roman empire is the church?

• /u/Sugbaable wrote about Why do we consider Genghis Khan to have 'unified the Mongol tribes'?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/fate-speaker answered During the French Revolution, the words "Patrie" and "Patriote" became widespread. How widespread were they before the Revolution started ?

• /u/fate-speaker wrote about Meta: What is a good source of quality history books / papers?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Big-Oof-Bob wrote about How did regiments operate on the battlefield between the 18th and 19th century?

• /u/Big-Oof-Bob wrote about Why create even more confusion during Mission Albany in WW2?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/qumrun60 answered Why do the Catholic Church and most other Western Christian denominations observe the Sabbath on Sunday rather than Saturday, given that the word for "Saturday" means "Sabbath-day" in many European languages?

• Did Early Christians View Musical Instruments as Sinful?

• Did the Romans believe the planets, sun and moon were the gods physically or did they just represent the gods somehow?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/CUrlymafurly answered If king Arthur were real, what are the chances his name and image, were erased from history based on the idea of "the Victor writes the history"?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/KittyScholar answered Considering Jesus Christ is said to have been born on December 25, was Year 0 only six days?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/AlviseFalier wrote about What was Italy like during the 1990's?

• /u/AncientHistory answered How bad was HP Lovecraft racism and mental issues? I’ve heard everything from he was a complete shut in who was pretty much afraid of everything to a relatively normal person?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Nashinas answered What would have a medieval Muslim’s exposure to the Quran been like?

• /u/Negative_Bit_5815 wrote about What causes social progress to… occur? Why did racial segregation end? Why did women acquire the right to vote? Why did these things change when they did, and why have the conservative elements of society failed to prevent them?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/iandavidmorris answered What is "Walaa" and what does it mean in the context of Aisha freeing her slave Barirah?

• /u/Icy-Lingonberry-1227 answered Why are most self defense classes teaching traditionally Asian martial arts (Karate, Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Krav Maga) vs Western styles (Boxing, Greco-Roman Wrestling)?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/rhet0rica answered Why is gold the de facto valuable metal?

• /u/rhymingcommentguy wrote about Why is it considered as normal to invade and annex lands from other countries in the past but seen as wrong and illegal these days?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/EnclavedMicrostate wrote about How do historians explain the Qing's hostility to the diplomatic process?

• /u/epicyclorama answered If king Arthur were real, what are the chances his name and image, were erased from history based on the idea of "the Victor writes the history"?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Silent_Ad_5994 answered How did Jews who survived the Holocaust reunite with their families?

• /u/spinaround1 wrote about What was the biggest instance of Jewish collective resistance to the Nazi regime?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/crab4apple answered Is it true that after world war 2 ussr moved their severely disabled veterans out to islands so they would not tarnish the image of the country ?

• How did Eleanor Roosevelt die of TB in the 60s when antibiotics were readily available?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/lakerboy152 answered Why did the Habsburg family commit incest even tho the Bible forbid it?

• Why are ancient battles so much greater in scale/numbers than medieval battles?

• How were republics in the HRE viewed by other member states?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/dalidellama answered What would happen if soldiers were overwhelmed in battle by another army and decided to break ranks and run for their lives in all directions causing chaos during a battle?

• Why are most self defense classes teaching traditionally Asian martial arts (Karate, Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Krav Maga) vs Western styles (Boxing, Greco-Roman Wrestling)?

• Why does asymmetrical warfare seem to work more effectively post 1945?

• Enlistment in the mid-18th century British Army was "for life". What did this mean in practice?

• Was every single Japanese American sent to the internment camps?

• Tuesday Trivia: Women leaders! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!

[u/dalidellama → u/Gankom]

Thanks for the mentions and all. I've been dissociating pretty heavily the last few weeks, glad I can apply it helpfully, so.

[u/Gankom → u/dalidellama]

Take care out there!

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/hgwxx7_ answered Indira Ghandi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards 5 months after she ordered Operation Blue Star, a military attack on one of Sikhism's holiest temples that resulted in the death of hundreds of Sikh civilians. Why would she still surround herself with Sikh bodyguards after that?

• /u/hillsonghoods wrote about What did people used to think getting a static shock was?

[u/hgwxx7_ → u/Gankom]

Thank you.

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/jagabuwana did How Wahabii salafi ( extremist Muslims sect ) succeed if Most Muslims were Against it ?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/LustfulBellyButton answered Why were Muslim slaves in the Cape Colony able to preserve their religion while those in the Americas (particularly Brazil) couldn't?

• /u/M_Bragadin wrote about How could 10,000 hoplites have been available to be hired by Prince Cyrus and later have to make the Anabasis?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Double_Show_9316 wrote about Was there any truth to the accusations against Five Members of Parliament (1642)?

• /u/earlgreyjunkie answered Do historians check every single piece of data as in a text as much as humanly possible?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Venetia5 answered How exactly were tournaments organized and in what order did their events play out around the 1100-1300's?

• /u/Vpered_Cosmism wrote about How did neoliberalism spread globally?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/police-ical answered Would fascism historically be viewed as a mass psychosis?

• Why did going from the musket ball to the bullet take so long?

• Why did the Habsburg family commit incest even tho the Bible forbid it?

• Was suicide less common in pre-industrial societies than in later ones? If so, why, when life is objectively better and easier?

• Why do people sympathize with Marie Antoine?

• Did people in previous centuries suffer from lung cancer and similar tobacco afflictions like we do now?

• France lost a sizeable percentage of its male population during WW1. What impact did this have on matrimony? Did that generation have a lot of women who never got married?

• Why were doctors in the 1700s opposed to empiricism?

• How was race/blackness thought about in late 19th & early 20th Century Ireland? ~~

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/TCCogidubnus wrote about Could lead poisoning in Ancient Rome and Greece have reinforced the stereotype that women were irrational?

• /u/tdre666 answered According to Jefferson Morley, a Kennedy scholar, the recently released JFK files show that a small clique in CIA counterintelligence was responsible for JFK’s assassination. How accurate is this assessment, and how much does it run against the grain of the current historical consensus?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/EverythingIsOverrate answered What was the job of a mint master and what was the advantage of being one in the 1400s?

• Why does masonry fortification stop working in the early modern era?

• How To Look Up Prices for Specific Points in History?

• What did the Chinese do with all that silver?

• I have just become emperor of Rome. When will the mints begin making coins with my face and how long before they begin being circulated?

• What would have been the difference between a war fought in the late 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars technology-wise? Did Napoleon recognize the advent of the Industrial Revolution?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Astronoid wrote about Can somebody explain me the war of the Roses like I'm 5 ?

• /u/Auguste76 answered Ok I understand that the Nazi party is the most notorious Facist regime in history, but a lot of Hitler’s policies feel very socialist? Can someone break this down for me?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/KiwiHellenist answered Why is the number Ï€ (pi) called that?

• Herodotus' Histories call the southern Levant/Yehud "Palaistine", seemingly both as a literal translation of "Yisrael" and as a transliteration of "Peleshet". Did the fact that the Philistines were originally Greeks have anything to do with this choice? Did Herodotus even know they were Greeks?

• What do we know about the Theban Cycle? Why does it seem to have vanished so much earlier, and how influential would it have been?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/yodatsracist answered How true is the "rice theory of culture" - that East Asian societies such as Japan are more collective-oriented due to the nature of rice farming?

• /u/yonderpedant wrote about In America, I’ve noticed that a large portion of the candy there is fruit flavored. How did this come to be and do other countries have their own ‘main fruits’ for candy?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/walagoth answered To what extent is Modern Welsh identity formed from the Romano-British culture?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/ThoughtHot3655 wrote about Why is it considered as normal to invade and annex lands from other countries in the past but seen as wrong and illegal these days?

• /u/throfofnir answered Did medieval people really use torches the way we see in movies and TV? With the light source held out in front of them?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/WelfOnTheShelf answered What was the real extend of the dominions of the House of Lusignan?

• Did the Christian crusader states make any attempts to convert the non-Christians in the Holy Land? What was their policy towards the non-Christian peoples they ruled over?

• Is it true that Saladin found the lost child of a Christian commoner?

• Why were the Jews of Orléans accused of sponsoring Caliph al-Hakim’s attack on the Holy Sepulcher in 1009?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/restricteddata and /u/postal-history had some thoughts on DOGE is a government body named after a meme, is there any similar cases in history where a government body or the like has been named after a joke?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Witsand87 answered Was suicide less common in pre-industrial societies than in later ones? If so, why, when life is objectively better and easier?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/MajesticSun2237 answered Did the Romans really practice a tradition of kissing on the mouth as a greeting? If so, how common/widespread (both geographically and temporally) was it?

• /u/mikedash answered Has there ever been a political system where kings were voted for?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/gerardmenfin did This might shock some readers, but New Mexico has a rather dark history with regards to its views on witchcraft. In 1877 five people were burned alive for suspicion of practicing the religion. I looked it up online and didn't find any other source for something like this happening. Did this actually happen?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Bodark43 answered Why did going from the musket ball to the bullet take so long?

• How Much Influence Did Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" Have Over The American Revolution?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• A bunch of people suggested Any good history YouTube channel recommendations?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/KaestnerFabian answered How widespread was Min Branch of Chinese languages at its peak?

• /u/kaladinsrunner wrote about Can someone break down the historical context for why Israel and Palestine are currently at ends and have been for a long time?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/TroublesInFrance answered How did the public opinion on IRA and Provisional IRA shift over the years in independent Ireland?

• /u/TywinDeVillena answered What's new with classical antiquity: Do we know more about ancient Greece or Rome (society, culture, politics, key events and crises) now than in 1775, and how do we know it?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/FelicianoCalamity answered In 1066 what did: Harold Godwinson, Harald Hardrad, and William the Conqueror - each base their claim to the English throne on?

• /u/FivePointer110 wrote about Need Sources for CON Argument: "Is the Criminal Justice System Biased Against Minorities?"

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/phrxmd wrote about It's 1000 CE, I am a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. How do I go about proving this?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/hornybutired tackled How has the invention of technology used for artistic purposes changed what is considered to be art? Has there been any push back or resistance to new technology used for artistic purposes to be considered "not art?"

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/aldusmanutius wrote about Is it true that DaVinci was just left-handed, which is why his journals look like that?

• /u/Alexios_Makaris answered I often see it said Liberia and Ethiopia were the only two African countries to never be colonized by Europeans, but Liberia was founded by Americans and is arguably a settler colony and Ethiopia was successfully invaded by Italy to colonize in WW2?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/fate-speaker wrote about What fabrics would a bourgeois man in 1760's Paris wear?

• Were the members of the low nobility who took part in the French revolution merchents who bought nobility status? Or did they assume that with the changing times it was more practical to become bourgois?

• Disenfranchisement of stage actors in revolutionary France?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/T0DEtheELEVATED answered When did the Holy Roman Empire begin to decline?

• /u/TCCogidubnus wrote about Was there Jewish influence on Stalinism ?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/FivePointer110 answered What were the motivations behind the expulsion of moors and jews from Spain in 1492, and how was it perceived by the Spanish population and the rest of Europe?

• /u/Flashy-Sir-2970 wrote about Was there an Islamic equivalent to nunnery, that a woman could pursue if she didn't want to get married and become a wife and mother?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/_Raskolnikov_1881 wrote about When and how did names in the USSR become Russified?

• /u/AIOverlord404 answered What was the equipment and composition of the Persian military like and how did it change from Cyrus ii to Yazdegerd iii?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/wotan_weevil answered Is the Smithsonian responsible for a distorted, overtly negative, representation of American history?

• Why would there have been search lights on the Belgian/Dutch coast in 1936/7?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/gillgar answered Indira Ghandi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards 5 months after she ordered Operation Blue Star, a military attack on one of Sikhism's holiest temples that resulted in the death of hundreds of Sikh civilians. Why would she still surround herself with Sikh bodyguards after that?

• /u/gingeryid wrote about What units of time have been used, besides the 24-hour day with seconds and minutes?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/PuzzleheadedAsk6448 wrote about Why are the Old/Middle/Neo Assyrian and Babylonian Empires known as, well, empires, while the Old/Middle/New Egyptian Kingdoms are known as, well, kingdoms? Specially since the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchs are known as kings. Aditionally, why do we say Neo instead of New for Assyria/Babylonia?

• /u/qed1 answered Medieval European Bible codices did not always contain all 73 books of the Catholic Bible. Others include extrabiblical authors like Josephus, Philo, and Isidore. How did medieval Christians know which texts were and were not considered biblical?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/rsclient answered Were there any major telegraph codes developed beyond Morse code?

• /u/satopish wrote about How has Christianity been viewed in Japanese politics?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/raggedclaws12468 answered Are there any "porn-y" ancient Greek or Roman statues? AKA statues meant for personal use that were explicitly meant to arouse the viewer.

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/EasyPete831 wrote about Why does asymmetrical warfare seem to work more effectively post 1945?

• /u/EmperorCharlesV answered How much influence did the Emp. Charles V have on its subjects in the Netherlands?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Das_Daw answered When did the Holy Roman Empire begin to decline?

• When Descartes says he was in Germany, what entity does he refer to? Was that a synonym for the HRE? Was the place known as "Germany" more often referred to than, say, the HRE or the particular local political entities?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/mikedash wrote about Why was Henry I’s decision to name Empress Matilda as his heir so unpopular? To what degree was this just sexism?

• /u/mikedash wrote about Good books on the German Peasant War?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/frisky_husky answered Has there ever been a political system where kings were voted for?

• /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov wrote about Is Ralph Manheims translation of mein kampf a trusted translator?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Dishonourable_Rat answered What was Jan Žižka's motivation to join the hussites?

• /u/Double_Show_9316 answered Was there any truth to the accusations against Five Members of Parliament (1642)?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Halofreak1171 answered Do historians check every single piece of data as in a text as much as humanly possible?

• /u/HammerandSickTatBro wrote about Why did people spin at home c.1900?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/itsallfolklore answered Could the Norse Æsir be a distant echo of the Assyrians? A cultural memory distorted by verbal tradition?

• Was there an actual trail on the Oregon trail?

• If king Arthur were real, what are the chances his name and image, were erased from history based on the idea of "the Victor writes the history"?

[u/itsallfolklore → u/Gankom]

Thanks for this! As is typical for me, I thought the week was a blank for me until I wrote the one this morning.

[u/Gankom → u/itsallfolklore]

No finer tradition then slipping in under the wire.

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Liljendal answered Nordic roman empire?

• /u/lord_mayor_of_reddit wrote about Martin Van Buren spoke Dutch as his first language. Was this a common trend is his era? How long did the Dutch character of New Netherland survive?

~

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Essex626 wrote about Medieval European Bible codices did not always contain all 73 books of the Catholic Bible. Others include extrabiblical authors like Josephus, Philo, and Isidore. How did medieval Christians know which texts were and were not considered biblical?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/mrhumphries75 answered What happened to the Taifa rulers after they were conquered by the Christians?

• /u/MtlStatsGuy wrote about John Stuart Mill once said that "the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings". How much truth is there to this?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/huhwe answered who first write that china has 5000 years history?

• /u/Humble-Cantaloupe-73 wrote about What units of time have been used, besides the 24-hour day with seconds and minutes?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Partapparatchik wrote about How did Russia come to be seen as an enemy by the West and vice versa after the fall of the USSR? Why did that rationale come about?

• /u/Peepeepoopooman1202 answered Did the medieval Chinese/Japanese/other "gunpowder empires" employ pike and shot similarly to western Europeans during the early modern era?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• How come Spain didn't lose it's identity and culture to become Arab (like the rest of MENA) despite being under Muslims for centuries? had posts from /u/Several-Argument6271, /u/grashnak, /u/Grouchy_Bus5820 and many others!

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• Did Spain have colonies, colonise land, and have slavery? My Spanish friend says no. We had a bunch of answers from /u/MistakeSelect6270, /u/400-Rabbits, /u/holomorphic_chipotle

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/chmendez, /u/AwesomeLC20, /u/2stepsfromglory and more!

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Icy-Lingonberry-1227 wrote about What was life for ordinary Americans during the Gilded Age era?

• /u/Imxset21 answered In A Game of Thrones, the character Jorah Mormont has a famous quote where he says that the common people don’t care who sits on the throne as long as the people are left alone. Does this accurately capture the sentiment of peasants in medieval Europe?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/bug-hunter answered Why did the trail of tears happen despite the fact that the Indians involved had taken up so much of Southern US White culture that they even had plantations?

• How did camping develop into a popular recreational activity in the United States?

• Insofar as we can measure it, has the US presidency truly gotten more powerful over time?

• How would one be confined in an 18th century Navy ship?

• What are the origins of HR (Human Resources)?

• Why does Jackie Robinson, the first black MLB player, get so much more attention than other players who broke color barriers?

• What are the origins of HR (Human Resources)?

• By the standard of great general, was George Washington one?

• If the Apache were never conquered shouldn’t they be excluded from the Mexican and Spanish empires in history books?

• How did the War on Terror affect the federal budget and deficit?

• Kennedy assassination: Who knows the truth?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/TofuLordSeitan666 answered Why did so many progressive white punk artists in the 80s use the N-Word?

• /u/troopersjp wrote about How to attain Historical sources to read?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/becs1832 wrote about When did strong noses stop being deemed beautiful in women? What caused that shift?

• /u/Bernardito answered Why does asymmetrical warfare seem to work more effectively post 1945?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/handsomeboh answered who first write that china has 5000 years history?

• /u/heyheymse wrote about Does anyone have any media about the history of cunnilingus?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/thefourthmaninaboat wrote about What the hell are the Irish Brigade talking about in the song kinky boots?

• /u/the-odd-historian answered Can someone break down the historical context for why Israel and Palestine are currently at ends and have been for a long time?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/dandanar answered When did the president start being held accountable for the economy?

• /u/DanKensington wrote about Beer (almost?) replaced water in medieval Europe due to lack of clean sources. Was this a case for early Ottoman empire as well?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/gerardmenfin answered Did the French government prohibit mixed marriages in the 20th centuries?

• Does anyone know when the Parish of Saint-Firmin was integrated into the village of Vineuil?

• Why do half French half Vietnamese is more rare than half Indonesian half Netherlands, consider both Vietnam and Indonesia both got colonized by western nations for a long period of time?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/NuclearHeterodoxy answered How did Russia come to be seen as an enemy by the West and vice versa after the fall of the USSR? Why did that rationale come about?

• /u/Obversa wrote about Triple Crown winner Secretariat supposedly had an exceptionally large heart. Is this historically accurate?

• /u/ook_the_librarian_ answered Why can't we tell what the "3rd spice" was from cook books?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Gudmund_ answered Anybody have an update on the "Alkebulan" as a possible name outside of people calling it Ethiopia lol for a time?

• /u/Gudmund_ wrote about Anybody have an update on the "Alkebulan" as a possible name outside of people calling it Ethiopia lol for a time?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/AndreasDasos wrote about Why does Swiss German have very distinct dialects while Swiss French and Swiss Italian don't?

• /u/AndrewSshi answered How true is the "rice theory of culture" - that East Asian societies such as Japan are more collective-oriented due to the nature of rice farming?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/xChipXx answered How do historians trust the historical texts written by ancient tribes and kingdoms?

• /u/xobrax wrote about Has there ever been a political system where kings were voted for?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/JSTORRobinhood answered What did the Chinese do with all that silver?

• Compared to Western Europe, what did reading culture and publishing industry look like in China from the early 16th century to the late 19th century?

[u/JSTORRobinhood → u/Gankom]

🫡

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/AllenbysEyes wrote about Who Exactly Did Al Capone Kill by Himself?

• /u/AlviseFalier answered What was the attitude of the Venetians toward the local culture and people of the lands under the Enetokratia?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Theriocephalus wrote about What is the origin of the stereotypical alien design (👽)?

• /u/thestoryteller69 answered How do historians explain the Qing's hostility to the diplomatic process?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Snapshot52 and /u/Bodark43 delved into Is there a consensus about the impact of disease on Indigenous communities in the Americas?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Thucydides_Cats answered What's new with classical antiquity: Do we know more about ancient Greece or Rome (society, culture, politics, key events and crises) now than in 1775, and how do we know it?

• /u/Thucydides_Cats wrote about Spartacus is hailed as a symbol of abolitionism, but wouldn't it be wrong and inaccurate to try and describe him with such an ideology?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/postal-history answered How historically accurate is the book "Human accomplishment" by Charles Murray?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/TywinDeVillena wrote about I have just become emperor of Rome. When will the mints begin making coins with my face and how long before they begin being circulated?

• /u/TywinDeVillena wrote about Was there a law against claiming the kings authority in Spain during the 1500’s?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/EverythingIsOverrate tackled Was collectivization the main cause of the Great Chinese Famine?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Jaqurutu did Why the Islamic world in the last centries shifted from Sufism ( a very peaceful tolerant sect) to Salafism wahabisim ( a very extremist sect ) ? Wealth of Saudi family or there's another reasons ?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/restricteddata answered Why do people collaborate when their country comes under occupation? Are there any works that deal with the psychology of collaboration or contain interviews with collaborators?

• Is "video game history" something that formally exists, or at least a subfield of something else? If not, what are barriers to it becoming recognized as a proper subject of study?

• how did ancient civilizations not develop technology like ours?

• Do historians check every single piece of data as in a text as much as humanly possible?

• Are these famous atomic bomb videos fake, as Andreessen Horowitz claims?

• why did cuniform die off?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/jschooltiger answered What changes did Oliver Cromwell do to the Royal Navy?

• Were sailors who were press ganged by the british in the late 18th early 19th century paid for their service?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Cha0tic117 answered Why is it considered as normal to invade and annex lands from other countries in the past but seen as wrong and illegal these days?

• /u/Consistent_Score_602 answered What demographic of people were in stalins gulags the most? Would it be wrong to assume Nazi’s?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Iphikrates wrote about What's new with classical antiquity: Do we know more about ancient Greece or Rome (society, culture, politics, key events and crises) now than in 1775, and how do we know it?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/mimicofmodes answered What did Queen Mary I do correctly that Matilda failed to do?

• /u/moonrhy wrote about What's a good book for a non-religious individual that's interested in having a survey of Christianity (social dynamics, inner workings, structure, hierarchy, practices) in Western Europe during the Middle Ages?

[u/Gankom]

We also pause to show some appreciation for those fascinating questions that caught our eyes, but still cry out for the attention of an expert. Feel free to post your own, or those you’ve come across in your travels, and maybe we’ll get lucky with a wandering expert.

• /u/skeevyloser asked about What was life like for a sex worker in a brothel in Victorian era London?

• /u/kingwooshiman asked Did ancient cities like Rome have established norms and/or spaces for children’s recreation and social life?

• /u/Maleficent-Toe1374 asked Why did southern sympathizers develop their Lost Cause narrative?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/atuljinni asked Were ancient people aware that battle numbers were not true?

• /u/Pope_Nicholas_V asked How did the rise of corporate sponsorship reshape Grand Prix racing’s class structure, and how does this compare to motorsport in former colonies like Australia?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• A deleted user asked How did polio-related disability affect survivors prior to the invention of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1953?

• /u/BjorkingIt asked How did propaganda work in pre-modern times? Without modern newspapers/radio/tv how did it spread across a whole society?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/CoconutNuts5988 asked A friend told me that the USA had the largest Communist Party of any country in the 1930s. Is this true? What happened to it?

• /u/Being_A_Cat asked Scholars consider that ancient Egypt ended when Rome annexed Egypt in 30 BCE despite the fact that native pharaohs hadn't ruled Egypt for 300 years at that point, and that the pharaonic system would still persist for another 300 years afterwards. Why 30 BCE and not 340 BCE or 313 CE?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/NemoTheLast asked Would the greats of classical/baroque music and their contemporaries have recognized the musical principles behind jazz and blues music even if they weren’t considered “correct” at the time?

• /u/Tatem1961 asked Was there an Islamic equivalent to nunnery, that a woman could pursue if she didn't want to get married and become a wife and mother?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/TanktopSamurai asked I am a worker in the Soviet Union. There are multiple factories in my city. I wish to change jobs from one to the other. How would i go about doing that?

• /u/TheHondoGod asked What is the history of pain relief medicines or treatments?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/CommodoreCoCo asked When and how did E=mc2 become a universally recognized formula?

• /u/Ferseron asked Why did Eastern European socialist countries collapse?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Milkhemet_Melekh asked How did Hellenistic culture and religion evolve under Roman rule? What maintained or evolved, and what gave way? How did this reflect in Byzantium?

• /u/Goat_im_Himmel asked Did the Anarchist campaigns of 'Propaganda by the Deed' ever result in anything?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Double_Cookie asked Historians and the current political climate in the USA. What are your thoughts?

• /u/Tatem1961 asked Why don't we see a lot of Spartan philosophers, poets, artists, etc. even though they were all rich enough to pursue leisurely activity? Why do the idle rich seemed to have focused so much on exercise?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/TheDuchyofWarsaw asked I am a dying peasant in the middle ages. My wife died in childbirth and I am leaving behind an infant and a toddler. Who is taking care of my children after I pass?

• /u/LordBecmiThaco asked Ancient Roman gladiators sold figurines in their likeness as merchandise; who is the first historically attested "toy collector"? Were there funko pop collectors in the classical world?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Goat_im_Himmel asked How important was the Napoleonic Wars in the development of a sense of 'British' and 'French' national identity?

• /u/ktrisha514 asked Is fascism only possible in the post-industrial world?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/Artistic-Flamingo-92 asked To what extent is the lack of women in the history of science due to a lack of opportunity vs. a bias in record-keeping or systematic erasure?

• /u/Honest_Picture_6960 asked Why appeasement?

[u/Gankom → u/Gankom]

• /u/737373elj asked How was "high-tech" vs "low-tech" weather forecasting done during the 1900s?

• /u/TheHondoGod asked What is the origin of calling a video's preview screen a "Thumbnail"? Is it related to the physical thumbnail that is the nail on said thumb?