I wrote about the American perspective on the Baltimore affair which almost brought the United States into war with Chile in 1891.

There were a couple interesting questions from the past week that didn't get a lot of attention:

• "What was the religious life like for an English knight of the early 15th century (1410 - 1420)?" by /u/iato19459
• "Who was Christine de Pisan, and how did she end up writing a manual on medieval warfare in the early 15th century?" by /u/hborrgg
• "I'm a Jew living in the Iberian Peninsula in the 1490s. Suddenly, the King decides to expel all Jews from his country. How am I notified, and how am I forced to do it? Who provides transport? Do I have time to gather my family and possessions, and decide with my community where our exile will be?" by /u/oppidano
• "I have often come across suggestions that Foucault was, despite his influence, a 'bad' historian. How so? What did he do (or even not do) that is/was objectionable?" by /u/EnclavedMicrostate

/u/sunagainstgold answers As I understand it, Joan of Arc was charged in her trial with heresy and cross-dressing. Was cross-dressing at the time considered a serious ecclesiastical offense? Why?

/u/crrpit answers What was the exiled Ethiopian Governments position regarding the Spanish Civil War (and a possible intervention by the League of Nations)?

/u/chocolatepot answers Generally, at least in the West, when a couple gets divorced the woman is far more likely to get custody of the children. Was Women's suffrage in the 20th Century the turning point of this?

/u/terminus-trantor answers Christopher Columbus had to convince the Spanish monarchs to finance his first expedition. Were there others who wanted to sail west at the time, unaware of Columbus and his wrong calculations of the Earth's size?

/u/hillsonghoods answers How much was Nirvana really responsible for the downfall of glam metal?

/u/retarredroof answers Was Circleville, Ohio a Native American metropolis?

Hi everyone. I actually tagged a few this week, and I'm excited to add them to this week's list:

• /u/drylaw with the story of le Hip Hop in France in Countries like Japan, France and Germany have a distinctive rap/hip hop subculture. How did a genre originating in USA's black communities take root in other countries?

• /u/troymcclurehere gives an interesting description of vegetarianism in Buddhism and Jainism in Is veganism/vegetarianism a recent phenomenon? Were there people in history who didn't consume animals for ethical reasons?

• /u/Kochevnik81 picks apart the 1996 Russian presidential election in In 1996, Boris Yeltsin won re-election as President of Russia in a close race against the Communist candidate. Russia was in crisis in the 90s, with the economy crashing, violent crime skyrocketing and social services collapsing. How did Yeltsin win re-election? Was the election a complete fraud?

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One of the most interesting things I've read all week was u/kungming2's answering What do we know about the Roman mission sent to the Han court in China? (plus follow-ups)

I wrote something about Chosŏn poetry here, but I'm not 100% happy with it. It could have been more holistic, I think, and some of the discussion was a little too vague.

I answered a question asking whether there had been any recent rediscoveries of written sources from the Saxon period.

It was interesting to realise quite how much material may still be sitting unrecognised in antiquarian materials collected during the Tudor and Stuart periods – when monastic and cathedral archives were rifled for Saxon charters on behalf of a new breed of collectors. There ought to be a research project devoted to looking systematically at what's out there.

/u/cthulushrugged answers Starting with the Qin Emperor in 222 BCE, China has a long history of building walls along the northern border to keep out the "barbarians". This, of course, culminated with Great Wall under the Ming. How effective were these walls? Did they ever successfully prevent an invasion from the north?

A bit delayed, but here we go:

/u/kieslowskifan answered "GDR Propaganda" and "Why did the French embrace Napoleon, a man who declared himself benevolent emperor of France, right after fighting a revolution to depose and kill monarchs?"

/u/mikedash on "Did Japanese forces ever transfer captured POWs to German camps?"

/u/ecdc05 on "Gone With the Wind sold over 202 million tickets, far more than any movie, including the original Star Wars movie. What was the cultural phenomenon surrounding the film's run? Did it rival Star Wars for the cultural impact it had on that generation?"

super shoutout to /u/XenophonTheAthenian for answering my questions on agricultural labor in Ancient Rome

Hope it's ok to post here with a one week delay.

u/ShadowsofUtopia answered my question about the years following the fall of the Khmer Rouge