No "in your era" or "throughout history" questions

One of our key principles regarding questions is that they should be as precise as possible; we do not want threads that will attract only bad answers, or are so generalised that they cannot be answered. We will therefore remove questions that are seeking trivia rather than informed answers.

Our guiding principle is that if a thread can be summarised as "tell me random stuff about X through history" then it falls into this category of trivia rather than looking for in-depth answers which is this community’s main focus. Questions likely to be removed are those asking about all history and all places at once. If your question includes the phrase "In your area of expertise" strongly reconsider posting it, or making it more specific. Instead, any questions that are looking for trivia or for extremely general topics should turn to our weekly Meta threads; the Friday-Free-for-All thread in particular is well suited to many of these questions, as is the Tuesday Trivia thread. Many general questions have been well explored in the past, and you might find lots of interesting information in the archive of both Tuesday Trivia and Friday Free-for-All threads.

it's just not a question the sub wants to answer outside of either friday free-for-alls or as a topic for "trivia tuesdays" (try messaging mods to see if this can be a tuesday topic)

edit: that being said there is a buried historical methods question here: how to avoid confusion of stuff like satire with straight history which is an interesting and valid question

This submission has been removed because it violates the rule on poll-type questions. These poll-type questions do not lend themselves to answers with a firm foundation in sources and research, and the resulting threads usually turn into monsters with enormous speculation and little focussed discussion. “Most”, “least”, "best" and "worst" questions usually lead to vague, subjective, and speculative answers.

For questions of these types, we ask that you redirect them to more appropriate subreddits, such as /r/history or /r/askhistory.