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/alriclofgar gave an excellent answer on [presentism and morality] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3koz5x/can_anyone_help_me_understand_presentism_and/)
Weekly Rundown!
/u/The_Alaskan answered "What was it like for Muslim citizens of the USSR to make the Hajj? Was it allowed? If yes, who would have had the means, and what would it have been like?"
/u/anthropology_nerd on "When was the last recorded Native American raid on an East Coast city such as New York, Boston or Charleston?"
/u/astrogator on "How would an average Roman citizen travel through the Empire from one location to another?" and "How and when the order letters of Latin alphabet decied?"
/u/textandtrowel was kind enough to explain some stuff about historiography to me which started with the question "When did history become more about explaining social truths than exemplifying moral truths?"
I enjoyed /u/cthulhushrugged post about The First Disaster of Wu, an attempt to purge Buddhism in 5th century China
/u/thejukeboxhero on the gallo-roman aristocracy post decline and fall
I had a great time reading /u/RioAbajo on Clovis culture and the first people in America, as well as a number of other comments in that post. It was a lively discussion about what many might (regrettably) consider a rather obscure topic.