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.
Still working on it, but u/PangeranDipanagara's answer to https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7pezki/was_chinas_influence_on_southeast_asia_ever/ has blown me away
I thought u/Iphikrates wrote a really awesome and thorough response to my questions about How accurate is the depiction of Spartan hoplite warfare in the historical fiction novel Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield?
I know it is not so great a move to post your own answers, but I'm quite proud of my post on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. I'm still working on it, but I got burnt out while doing a section of funding, recruitment, war crimes, and counter-insurgency.
I just wanted to plug my answer on the extent of Roman interaction with Sub-Saharan East Africa, West Africa and Central Africa.
/u/artfulorpheus answered "What are the origins of the LTTE and the related issues of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka?"
/u/vonadler on "Did the Swedish Empire have a Tactical Doctrine to Reload on the March in the 18th century?"
/u/lewed_losel answered "Why do characters in Beowulf talk about "the Lord"?"
And to toot my own horn, this was the "answer dead questions" week, tackling several which were all at least 24 hours old. Quite pleased with "Was internal fraternization accepted in the Soviet army during WW2 as portrayed in the Russian film "Battle for Sevastopol"?" and "What happened to "Indian Territory" (Oklahoma) during the Civil War?", both of them something I'd been wanting to write for awhile, but "Artyom Tarasov became the first millionaire of USSR in 1989. How did the State media and citizens of the USSR react to this?" turned out OK as well.
/u/Lion_And_Sun wrote a fantastic response to my question: What drove Isma'il I's rise to power and decision to enforce practice of Shi'a Islam?
EDIT: ... which I now see he already posted as a reply! But I think it deserves a top level post!