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.
/u/Reedstilt and I addressed the question of population density in North America by tag-teaming the question Where were the most major settlements in the USA prior to European contact?.
/u/kieslowskifan sheds some light on the obscure topic of post-WWII publishing politics in On this old piece of sheet music it says "Printed in Germany/Soviet Occupied". Why would they feel the need to note the Soviet occupation?
Hot off the presses!
/u/TheFairyGuineaPig has posted an epic on Pacific Island navigation, exploration/settlement, technology, and trade. Find yourself a comfy chair and settle in with There are huge gaps between islands in the Pacific, what methods did the Polynesians/Islanders use to discover them and to stay on course in a trip between two islands they already knew existed? Do we know how many/what percentage were lost at sea?
Even though it's 17.25 on a Monday, here's what I found interesting throughout the previous week: