I'd like to highlight two posts from the week before that I don't think were brought up last Sunday, and one from a question this week:

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/u/Spiritof454's answer to the question When the Qianlong Emperor undertook the Ten Great Campaigns over the course of the 18th century, what kind of military innovations did the Qing Empire develop in their various wars and expeditions? Did it affect China's foreign policy after, and was their military decline a result of the campaigns?

/u/aegon-the-befuddled & /u/Guckfuchs answers to the question The ERE fought continuously with Muslim states - but in times of peace, what were relations like between the empire and her Muslim neighbors? Did the Byzantines ever ally with / help out Muslim states to fight mutual enemies? Was there constant presence of Muslim merchants in Constantinople?

And from this week:

/u/fiftytwohertz's answer to the question Before she became queen, Victoria lived under relative isolation under the Kensington System her mother devised for her. How much did the British public know about the system before Victoria's accession? Was there any worries that she may not have been raised properly to conduct her role as queen?

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All of these were quality answers and hopefully others will get a chance to see the two from the week prior! (It looks like the Victoria question turned out to be a popular one).

I did a writeup for Saturday Showcase yesterdy that may be of interest: The Cyrus Cylinder - Myth, Fact and Forgery by /u/lcnielsen

This can hardly be called overlooked, but my answer pertaining to Manichaeism was the most popular answer I have written so far, so it gets a mention for the record!

Okay folks better buckle in for this one. I have a shiny new flair to live up to, and had a ridiculous amount of free time that I spend reading answers. I'll try and avoid the ones others have already posted, but absolutely go read those others posted! (I'd never even heard of Manichaeism till last week and because of that question my library's about to ship in half a dozen different books.)

In [Could the Great Irish Famine have been prevented if the British provided more aide to Ireland?]https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9onqah/could_the_great_irish_famine_have_been_prevented/) we have some great responses from /u/locksymania about such a terrible time in Irish History, and a look and just what was happening in good old Eire.

Then we move to the Good Ol South in Was the South racist in the Civil War? where /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov gives us the most unsurprising answer, although equally pointing out that racism was kind of a big thing for everybody.

We've got Georgy again in the next one as well! Check out A german TV-Documentary characterises the "Battle of Dien Bien Phu" in the French Indochina War as the "Last Battle of the SS" because of the supposedly large amount of German Recruits after WWII, how true is this? where we learn just how freaking many Germans joined the French Foreign Legion in the aftermath of world war II.

Next we're back into dark days with To what extent was the Nazi Holocaust directed by studies of American history and the genocide by whites of Native Americans? where /u/commiespaceinvader gives us some in depth answers.

Two weeks of links to catch up on as I was busy as hell last weekend...

/u/Klesk_vs_Xaero answered "How did the individual states of the Italian peninsula become united as a single Italian state?" and also answered "Did Italians in the 1920s and 30s have any idea fascism would drag them into an apocalyptic World War? What kind of antiwar sentiment existed among Italians within or outside the Fascist Party?"

/u/Ginsu_Viking on "I’m an upper-class Englishman in Victorian England during the height of Egyptomania who has been invited to a mummy unwrapping party. What can I hope to expect?"

/u/Kieslowskifan answered "Did USA really trade with Nazi Germany up until december 1941? How sufficient was this trade?", as well as "Why did the Nazi government require Wehrmacht soldiers to be apolitical when every other branch of society was being politicized?" and "If the Wehrmacht in Nazi Germany had such an extensive conscription system how was the SS able to become so large?".

just wanted to thank u/cleopatra_philopater for their excellent answer to https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9ox8m3/the_ptolemaic_dynasty_was_remarkable_in_producing/