/u/Bernardito explains the French colonial mindset, French colonial politics, French politics, the Algerian War, racism, resistance, and how dictatorship can lead to public opinion holding sway; quotes primary sources; and offers suggestions on further reading in less space than it took me to type that list, in response to "Why did Algerian independence trigger an attempted coup in France?"

/u/RioAbajo and /u/Legendarytubahero most wonderfully double-teamed "How did the suppression and expulsion of the Jesuits influence their missions and surrounding Native American communities?". The thread got some attention/upvotes but their responses didn't really, so please go check it out!

Busy, busy day, so only getting to this now:

• /u/qhapaqocha on "What made Pachacuti such an effective military leader, and how was he able to expand Cusco into an Empire so swiftly?"

• /u/xenophontheathenian on "What is the oldest Roman Coin ever found?"

• /u/duxbelisarius on "French in world war 2"

Here's what grabbed my attention this week:

• /u/Mictlantecuhtli's answer to the question "What was the source of the manpower required for the construction of pyramids in Central and South America?"
• /u/Shmebber explaining why Dutch didn't become for Indonesia what English was to the Philippines
• /u/AsiaExpert commenting on where suicide attacks come from (I was really tempted to explain how the Lod Airport Massacre links the Japanese and Middle Eastern suicide attack tradition, incidentally).

I really enjoyed the contributions of /u/Commustar and /u/sowser to Why is their a relatively small African diaspora population in the Middle East despite the fact that the Arab slave trade brought millions of Black slaves from Africa to the Arab world for more than a thousand years? It was an interesting and lively thread!

/u/Mictlantecuhtli answered a very interesting question about cultures of Western Mexico and the biases in the research and primary data that skew towards burials instead of daily life.