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.
To say /u/shlin28 "answered" What happened to the city of Rome after the fall of the Roman Empire? does not give justice to the awesomeness you must go read, right now.
This whole thread gave rise to some great discussion of comparative mythology, with special credit to /u/yodatsracist and /u/Hegar.
A thread on the use of spears by ancient heavy infantry derailed into a discussion on whether Greek hoplites trained for war. I went to town. My opponent /u/LuckyLuigi was a good sport.
Big thanks to /u/TheFairyGuineaPig who did a super job on my question about the legal system in early 19c England!
A short list this week, mainly as I wasn't around for half the week :( Anyways though:
/u/sowser answered "Were Irish ever brought to North America as slaves?"
/u/agentdcf answering how he "see[s] environmental history as a way to think about periodization and especially to date modernity"