Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | May 15, 2017–May 21, 2017

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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.

WARitter

u/Livingifeform asked a question about The different costs of maces and warhammers which went unanswered for a little while. I threw my hat (helmet?) in the ring because I can't resist questions about the social history of armour and weapons.

Georgy_K_Zhukov
Stormtemplar
NientedeNada

Still Sunday here, so I was impressed by /u/AsianMosasaur's answer When was the bible First translated into Japanese?

and I wrote my own answer for Japan to When did refined grains (white rice/white wheat flour) replace whole grains in East Asian diets?