I trolled through some of the threads that I liked this week and found some very nice answers.

• /u/AsiaExpert wrote a nice wall-o-text on the diet of Japanese aristocracy and what an Edo-period banquet would be like.
• /u/Naugrith wrote an interesting response on Arab - Jewish relations during the period of settlement in the first half of the 20th century. I hadn't heard any of this before, so it was very interesting.
• There were many interesting things to learn from /u/zhemao and /u/Archaeologyag (and others) in response to the question In the late 16th century, Portugal banned the East Asian slave trade. Why did they ban it? Why wasn't the same "courtesy"extended to West Africa? I'd never heard of Europeans engaging in the slave trade in East Asia before, so this was an entirely new area for me.
• /u/raspberry_pie taught us all about William Pitt the Younger and how he became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
• /u/Gyokusai_Into_Ships went in-depth to explain how Japan was behind the West in aircraft technology throughout the 1920s-30s.

Finally, if I can step outside the last week for a moment, I came across an old response from /u/Tiako that I had saved explaining that "History is written by writers." I thought this was a great response to the common saying "History is written by the winners," and I'm curious what others might think.

There was a really interesting topic about how Oregon changed from 1000bc to 1000ce.

I especially enjoyed LITERAL_OBJECT's post, which didn't get enough attention.

/u/BeondTheGrave gave a really excellent summary of Ulysses S. Grant's strategic mindset [here] (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2sqnxz/was_ulysses_s_grant_as_strategically_and/cns4vgp)

400 rabbits' answers why the Tlaxcalans did not kick the Spanish out of Mexico here.

Check out LoneGazebo's answer for why the British treated India as one entity (they didn't!)