Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | June 06, 2021

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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.

Gankom

We return for another action packed, edge of your seat, editions of the Sunday Digest! Buckle up AH’ers because we have a phenomenal list of posts for you to peruse. Covering just a massive number of topics theres bound to be something to interest everyone.

Don’t forget to show some love for those brilliant authors, give some thanks and offer some upvotes for all their hard work!

That wraps us up for another week! Got a favorite? Any in particular that caught your eye? Let me know, and I’ll see you again next week!

Georgy_K_Zhukov

Reposting from last week because formatting with the links was wonky...

/u/_kaoru1010 on When I look up the history of Mongol women in the era of Genghis Khan and his sons/grandsons I only find information on Mongol queens and princesses. How did the other 99.9% of Mongol women live?

/u/400-Rabbits on Mesoamerica was accepting of "Xochihuas", men who identified as women and even served as concubines to kings and were "children" of multiple gay gods, but the Tlatoani of Texcoco banned sodomy and homosexuality. Why is this?

/u/A_Dissident_Is_Here on What political impact did the student protests of 1968 have in Europe?

jelvinjs7

Time for another installment of "The Real Questions", where we take a look at the wilder side of r/AskHistorians! Here, I give a shout-out to people asking the more atypical questions on this sub: questions that investigate amusing, unique, bizarre, or less common aspects of history, as well as ones that take us through intriguing adventures of historiography/methodology or niche/overlooked topics and moments in history. It's always a wide (and perhaps confusing) assortment of topics, but at the end of the day, when I see them I think, "Finally, someone is asking the real questions!"

Below are my entries for the week - questions with a link to an older response are marked with ‡. Let me know what you think were the realest questions you saw this week, and be sure to check out my full list of Real Questions.

Gankom

Sunday is also a chance to shout out the interesting questions that captured our imagination but still call out for an answer. Feel free to post your own or shout out any others you saw, and maybe we’ll get luck and an expert will see!