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.
For Native American Heritage Month, /r/IndianCountry and /r/AskHistorians have teamed up to tackle a variety of topics over the course of November. Last week's topic was Native Identity: Blood, Genes, and Recognition by /u/Opechan. This week is Native Civilization: Society, Culture, and Tech, by yours truly. Feel free to stop by and participate if these topics interest you.
Next week will be topic on colonialism and genocide, featuring /u/anthropology_nerd, /u/Ahhuatl, and myself. The following week will be about about language revitilization and related issues courtesy of /u/Muskwatch. The final Sunday of November will feature a topic about indigenous American art, past and present, by /u/ahalenia. I'll be posting links when those go up as well.
OK, here it is:
/u/colonel_blimp answered ""The Soviets saw America's rebuilding efforts in Europe and Japan as the US trying to expand its markets - which is exactly what they were doing" - how accurate is this statement?"
/u/the_alaskan on "Why did Alaska go to the United States and not Canada?"
/u/TheLegitimist on "Why was Hungary so heavily punished with the treaty of Trianon?"
I'm going to follow Georgy_K_Zhukov & /u/The_Alaskan's lead by giving my favourite questions of the week:
There were loads of good answerers in this thread & it was "Iceland is remote and sparsely populated. Why does it have such a large medieval literary corpus?"
Again loads of answerers to /u/mrtacoswildride's interesting question, "According to Anthony Beevor's "The Second World War", the Japanese Military had an officer led policy of eating prisoners. Is this true, and if so why aren't people mad as hell about it?"
/u/The_Alaskan's answer to "What was life like in Russian Alaska?"
"What is known about "Torture societies" in 17th Century Russia?"