Cast Your Votes! - Best of /r/AskHistorians May Balloting!

by Georgy_K_Zhukov

Hello everyone!

We are introducing a new little initiative in /r/AskHistorians today! Every month, we'll be recognizing two of the best posts from the previous month, with one "People's Choice Award" handed out based on voting from the sub as a whole, and a "Flair's Choice Award" based on voting from just our panel members. The winners get to enjoy a little star next to their name for the next month, and will have their answers enshrined in a special showcase on the wiki.

This thread is seeded with answers plucked from answers highlighted on the Twitter feed, as well as answers posted to the Sunday Digest threads of the past month (so make sure to help us out and keep them well populated!), but if you don't see the answer you think deserves to win here, feel free to submit ones not listed.

To talk about this generally, please keep responses confined to this post. Top level responses which are not nominated answers will be removed.

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/u/anthropology_nerd on "How were Native Americans regarded outside of the United States? Did they conduct formal diplomacy?"

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/u/agentdcf on "The British Grain Trade in the 1800s"

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/u/yodatsracist on "Did the Abrahamic religions get along in any form of unity in the Ottoman empire?"

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/u/DavidAOP on "Has there ever in history been a "pirate town" like you see in games and movies and stuff?".

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/u/Celebreth on "I have just joined the Roman Army. What is my life going to be like from now on?"

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/u/profrhodes on "Did independence movements and leaders in Africa during the decolonization period of the 1950s and 1960s have any impact on the American civil rights movement, and vice versa?"

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

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/u/jasoncaspian on "How was the bible put together?"

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/u/kieslowskifan on "What sort of treatment, professionally speaking, was given to German academics whose credentials were earned during the Nazi era?"

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/u/quouar on "Was Margaret Sanger a racist who wanted to exterminate black people?".

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/u/llamastingray on "Was Stalin’s transformation of Soviet society and its economy in the 1930s a success?"

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/u/prufrock451 on "Why did the United States invade Panama?"

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/u/cephalopodie on "How were lesbians in America affected by HIV and AIDS in the 1980s?"

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/u/textandtrowel on "What happened to the Roman system of slavery after the fall of the Roman Empire? Was the legal basis of 18th-19th century slavery derived from Roman law, or a completely separate system?"

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/u/elos_ on "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?"

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/u/valkine on "Why did three kings join the Third Crusade? Were there material reasons?"

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/u/Polybios on "King William the fist, AKA William the Silent is portrayed as a noble hero in the history text books I was handed as a kid. Was he really?".

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/u/sid_burn on "What was Nazi Germany's attitude to the former German Royal Family?"

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/u/tayaravaknin on "What was the relationship between government and business during the mid-20th century?"

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/u/texpeare on "Has Shakespeare's work been consistently popular/celebrated since it was first performed? Or was it rediscovered at a certain point?"

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/u/thefourthmaninaboat on "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?"

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

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

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/u/othais on "How did the M91 Carcano of Italy compare to the service rifles of the other Great Powers following WW1?"

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[META] To discuss this initiative, please respond to this post and keep discussion here. All top level responses which are not nominated answers will be removed.

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/u/OakheartIX on "Royal Friendships"

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/u/masungura on "How were Christian missionaries treated by the communities they tried to convert?"

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/u/itsalrightwithme on "Why was Spain not able to keep up with the superpowers in Europe during the 19th century?"

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/u/rioabajo on "What are the exact criteria with which historians can consider a past event to be a historical fact?"

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/u/colevintage on "How did contemporary, mainstream western ideas about fashion and gender develop?"

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/u/sowser on "Had some slave owners in the last months of American Civil War tried to sell their slaves to Brazil and other countries where slavery was still legal?"