Well folks, another great year here at /r/AskHistorians has come and gone, and with it tons and tons of amazing questions and fantastic answers, and now is the time to give some recognition to some of you all who have helped to make this sub so great. If I could I would be handing out accolades by the hundreds, but we're going to be winnowing it down to a small handful here. The nominations have already been chosen by you all, being drawn from our Monthly "Best Of' Awards, but as we only began this in May of this year, a small number of really standout responses from the previous few months also are included to make sure we have representation from the span of the entire year.
There is reddit gold to be handed out at the end of this, with the top three answers, by vote total, receiving 5, 4, and 3 months of reddit gold, respectively. Additionally, the user who asked the question will be recognized as well, with each of them receiving a month of reddit gold.
/u/Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX asked How were Native Americans regarded outside of the United States? Did they conduct formal diplomacy?. Answered by /u/anthropology_nerd
/u/Akton asked Has there ever in history been a "pirate town" like you see in games and movies and stuff?. Answered by /u/DavidAOP
/u/Rattional asked Why should I believe what a historian writes?. Answered by /u/restricteddata
/u/Commustar asked How did Aztec society measure wealth?. Answered /u/400-rabbits
/u/Doncuneo asked What were the primary differences between Soviet Sub designs and US sub designs during the cold war? what "Doctrines" did those designs build towards?". Answered by /u/vepr157
/u/Alexander___Hamilton asked Did the Roman Empire have a system in place for how they might have dealt with large, violent coastal raiding parties originating from beyond their control, such as the vikings? To go along with the theme for this week, how might coastal raiders that were caught be punished?. Answered by /u/Tiako
/u/DoritosDewItRight asked "The Republic of Turkey sent 15,000 men to fight in the Korean War, making up the third largest United Nation force after the US and UK. Why did Turkey send so many troops to such a distant war?". Answered by /u/Imperial_Affectation
/u/texasgenius asked "How were non-black minorities treated in the Jim Crow South?". Answered by /u/Dubstripsquads
/u/rogerjohnson11111 asked Did Native Americans use the bow and arrow prior to Europeans arriving in the New World?". Answered by /u/retarredroof
/u/Fairwhetherfriend asked "ELI5 - Holocaust Denial". Answered by /u/Elm11
/u/joathrowaway asked "When did the Byzantines stop thinking of Islam as a heresy, and start thinking of it as a religion?". Answered by /u/shlin28
/u/the-mattman asked "Why have Jews been expelled in so many countries?"/ Answered by /u/yodatsracist
/u/anthropology_nerd asked "How did the Suppression of the Jesuits, and their subsequent expulsion, influence missions and surrounding Native American communities?". Answered by /u/legendarytubahero
/u/spondulicker asked "If beaver pelts were so highly sought after from the "new world," why wasn't the North American beaver domesticated along the lines of the fox and mink fur trade? Was there really that big on an abundance in the wild, or was there some other reason?". Answered by /u/meninthemirror
Side Chatter Goes Here Please
/u/spondulicker asked "Can anyone explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and where Lebanon fits in?". Answered by /u/tayaravaknin
/u/JournalofFailure asked "Legend has it that dummy blueprints for the Concorde, featuring design errors, were created to fool Soviet agents - and that the USSR's supersonic airliner, the TU-144, featured some of these flaws. Is that true?". Answered by /u/the_alaskan
/u/Gugg256 asked "If I traveled to Rome in 50 BC. How much would it look like the Rome from the HBO Series Rome?". Answered by /u/celebreth
/u/Aerda_ asked "How Do Scholars Translate Text they only Have Fragments of?". Answered by /u/astrogator
/u/TheCheshireCody asked ""Hitler wasn't such a bad guy because his social programs were awesome" thread in TIL. Were they so great, were they unusual, were they sustainable?". Answered by /u/kieslowskifan