An amazing series of post on a sticky subject that got shamefully little attention: u/cleopatra_philopater on the question of perception of race and skin tone in Roman and Hellenistic Egypt.

Should probably be added to the FAQ, since questions on this topic come up quite frequently, but none of the other posts in the FAQ (that I recall) have anywhere near as much depth as these.

One unanswered post I'd love to know the answer to was /u/jkillsl 's When the came to North America, why didn't Europeans call moose "elk"?

I've wondered the same thing ever since I discovered Tycho Brahe's pet elk was what we'd call a moose here in Canada.

ETA: Why this is super weird, which isn't explained in the question, is that there's a totally different member of the deer family the English colonists called an elk. So, they used the European word "elk" for the new animal (Cervus Canadensis), and renamed as 'moose" the animal (Alces Alces) already present in Europe.

• /u/yodatsracist answered "Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in Thessaloniki which is in current day Greece. Was there a desire in Republican Turkey to take back more land?"

• /u/squidsquad on "Why have Christian attitudes toward violence and pacifism varied so greatly since the medieval and early modern periods?"

• /u/BronzeIV answered "I realised I do not know about how Rome end up conquering Greece. What was the relations like before Greece was conquered? What was the process like? Who were their principal opponents? Did cultural similarities play a role?"

Let’s look back at the theme of the week! What did we learn about medicine?

/u/meeposaurusrex talked about hhen and why did modern medical school replace an apprenticeship system, when did medicine first become what we would recognize as scientific, what records, if any, do we have of expert suspicion of bloodletting while it remained in fashion and my personal favourite how did patent medicines and other quackery impact the development of medicine as a professional and scientific discipline

Hello there, my AskHistorians comrades! Let us all seize the means of having a great weekend and look at some the popular and/or interesting questions from last week, whcih did not get an answer yet:

/u/MistrSwisher asked how did the Romans maintain consistent weights and measurements throughout their entire empire

/u/Sahasrahla wants to know what do historians make of the claims and theories about UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld’s death

/u/lachyBalboa would like to know how did historians and society view the First World War before the beginning of the second

How quickly did prejudice towards Japanese-Americans by the general American population end after WW2?

What happened to the German WW1 "Paris gun" after the war?

Was there a stock exchange in St Petersburg, like the NYSE, prior to the russian revolution? If so, what happened with it following the revolutions during 1917?

If a viking was wounded in battle but then died after it from infection or similar, did they believe that they would still go to valhalla?

What, exactly, was the geographic reach of the second KKK? What white supremacy activity would I find in 20s and 30s Central California and north, in general?

/u/Goat_im_Himmel asked for info about how the Italian military dealt with the legacy of World War II.

I looked around a bit for any good sources but without much success.

I'm still curious about a question I posted on the megathread for presidents/justice department - perhaps there are other threads that already provide answers someone could point out for me.