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.
A huge outpouring of gratitude for all the panelists and those who asked questions in the Native American Revolt, Rebellion, and Resistance AMA. We're still slowly addressing unanswered questions, so have patience with us as we continue to plow through over the next few days.
I'm going to echo the shout-out for the Native America panel. In particular I'd like to highlight the fantastic responses to my question of local elites and collaboration from /u/400-Rabbits, /u/drylaw and /u/anthropology_nerd.
I'd also like to flag up /u/brigantus's insightful response to the delightfully odd question of why England's fields are full of old thimbles.
/u/sowser with an incredibly interesting look at contemporary attitudes towards sexual exploitation of slaves in the USA
Rundown:
/u/heyheymse answered "What was sex in ancient Rome like?"
/u/International_KB answered "Why did Russia sign Brest-Litovsk?" and also on "How significant was the role of Lenin in the Bolshevik consolidation of power between 1917 and 1922?"
/u/iphikrates answered "Do we know how Sparta became Sparta? What was the culture like before it became the Sparta we know now" and also on "Why Was Athens So Dominant At Sea?"
First (and probably only time) I'll plug one of my own answers here but a lot of thought and research went into How did gender and sexuality shape the Holocaust -- for both the perpetrators and the victims? with some great support and interesting discussion by /u/marisacoulter and /u/Kugelfang52
No doubt this is an awful breach of etiquette but a certain u/G_Comstock asked the following oh so insightful question:
To what extent do the Alemanni, Marcomanni, Suebi and Quadi overlap?
Thus far criminally overlooked