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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.
This one on slavery was the probably the first question on colonial (not conquest era) Mexico I remember getting some more attention in... forever? There's a tendency to identify modern African slavery more with the U.S. and Caribbean than with Spanish America. At the same time, the important African presence in colonial Latin America is still too often overlooked. So I'm not so subtly shouting out my answer here, but also /u/Vladith for asking an interesting question.
Welcome, at last, to another edition of the Sunday Digest! It was a busy weekend, so I’m a little late with this, but you know what they say. The digest being late for a day makes the heart grow fonder. Or something like that.
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The Tuesday Trivia didn’t attract a ton of attention, but did get excellent posts from /u/Itsallfolklore and /u/artfulorpheus
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And don’t forget the Saturday Showcase! /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero wrote a sixteen part answer! I had to keep stopping to tell people around me all about it. They uh, sort of thank you for that I guess?
In Historic news that rocked the sub, and affected some people quite deeply, there was Notre-Dame de Paris is burning.
So the top bit says
Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here,
But I'm pretty sure that's exactly what /u/Gankom does. Are we sure they're human and not some kind of lifelike bot? There's like 50 threads just this week!
I had three questions floating around that I'm hoping someone might see and try to answer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bfj3lf/what_happened_to_aristotles_legacy_in_athena/
Two weeks worth because busy and shit...
/u/lord_mayor_of_reddit answered "Why was Manhattan chosen as the epicenter of NYC?" and "How exactly did the demonym "Dutch" become associated with the Netherlands rather than Germany?"
/u/EnclavedMicrostate answered "How did China react to the Russian conquest of Siberia? I know they had border conflicts in the second half of the 20th Century but I can’t find anything before then."
/u/Demeche answered "Under Khomeini, what effect did the ideology of the Iranian Revolution have on the Arab World and sectarian tensions there?"