Here's the rundown of posts I enjoyed from the past week:

/u/Daeres in "The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom has been referred to as "That extremely wealthy Bactrian empire of 1000 cities"; but what happened to the "1000" cities?"

/u/cazador5 in "Was the Viking fighting style as hard to combat for Saxons as shows like 'Vikings' portray it to be?".

/u/duxbelisarius in "To what extent did ethnic and nationalist tensions in the Balkans contribute to the outbreak of WWI?".

/u/kieslowskifan "I'm reading "The Right Stuff" and am finding myself with (many) more questions than answers."

/u/kozmund in "A recent RadioLab episode claimed that POW's in Camp Aliceville, Idaho, were treated extraordinarily well. Is this true? Were German POWs treated better than their American counterparts? What was German POW life like generally?"

/u/JDHoare in "How did the inverted cross (Cross of St. Peter) come to be a symbol of anti-Christian imagery?"

/u/elos_ in "I kept hearing about significant infantry combat doctrine changes during the first world war. What were the main changes among western military from 1914 to 1918?"

/u/thefourthmaninaboat in "Who's Idea was it to have post WW2 Warships such as Cruisers, Destroyers and even Corvettes, Etc. have the Ability to carry and launch Helicopters?"

/u/Quirite in "How much independence did warships have during WWII"

/u/sowser in "In late 1865, a former slave named Jordan Anderson responded to a letter written by his former master asking him to return as a payed worker. How would this letter have been received by the post-war American public? [letter inside]", and also addressing "What is revisionist history? Why is it a bad thing?"

Everyone in the Psychology and History Roundtable deserves a shoutout, but especially /u/butter_milk for taking point on it.

/u/idjet in "Indiana Jones and Captain America films involve Nazis searching for magical relics in order to get an upper-hand against the allies. Did anything like that actually happen during the Nazi Regime?"

/u/Valkine in "Did Medieval armor and weapons have "specs", like we have for cars or computers?"

/u/flyingdragon8 in "How do you find trustworthy books and avoid bad history?".

So, a huge shoutout to /u/agentdcf, who finally acceded to my pestering and really knocked it out of the park regarding the British graintrade of the 19th century.

/u/profrhodes gave us an amazing answer on how the US civil rights movement influenced the liberation movements in Rhodesia.

/u/commustar took the time to answer my pressing African agriculture question for peanuts of upvotes

In addition to the others listed...

Some Roman Create history from /u/astrogator in How important was Crete in the Roman Empire?

Some Shintoism in /u/frenchconnections answer to How did Shinto influence the Japanese world view and decision making during WWII?

A look at Anarchist Spain in /u/content404 answer to How did Anarchist Catalonia and the Free Territory in Ukraine function exactly? Were they truly anarchist societies?