Two history memes from Reddit's /r/historymemes

20 Based History Memes That Are Also Based On True Events

Certain places are bound to go down in history. For instance, the Berlin Wall, Independence Hall, Reddit. The internet has changed the way we understand the past: any question, any curiosity, any doubt at all can be addressed through a Google search bar, a Wikipedia page, or even an easily-accessible primary source. Or, if that's a little too dry for you, there are memes.

To learn about and narrate history, people no longer need to be physically present at some archive or great library: our ancestors live in the cloud, and through our screens we are nearer to the past than at any other time in history. These memes, which range from Rage Comics about the Roman Empire through to Wojaks dissecting the intricacies of Cold War-era international relations, mark an era when people had more to say and more to read about what happened long ago than at any other time. These history memes are, in themselves, historic.

Defenestration Of Rage

Average Czech leader: But that thing I fear no man. it scares me.

(Source: Reddit)

Plantagenets

His son's fiancé Henry II The hottest woman in the medieval Europe

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Rome And Persia

*** 150 AD At it again? 350 AD At it again? 627 AD At it again? Yes Yes Yes 1000

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Howdy

Revolutions of 1848: Fail Czechs: & B IGHT IMMA HEAD to Texas

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Perception vs. Reality

Cold War seen by other countries: L.00⁰ Cold War in reality: 怖い。 Afraid Afraid 怖い。

(Source: Reddit)

Maritime Issues

Mongolia: to invade the We are going Japanese! Kublai Mongolian Kahn Navy Kublai Kahn Nature It is even Typhoons Nature FUNNIER a second time.

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Stoic Power

MARCUS AURELIUS DEFENDING THE BORDERS,BEING TOLERANT OF CHRISTIANS, TRYING TO TALK OUT AVIDIUS CASSUS,RULLING JUSTLY FOR 20 YEARS,REJECTING EXTRAVAGANCE ingrip.com JULIANUS BEING MOCKED BY PAGANS, TRYING TO LARP AS ALEXANDER AND FAILING,FILLING HIS COURT WITH USELESS PHILOSOPHERS.

(Source: Reddit)

Defeating Shapur I

Shapur I Septimius Odaenathus made with mematic Eastern Rome Eastern Rome

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Diocletian Vibing

DIOCLETIAN PLEASE ROME NEEDS YOU TO RETURN TO POLITICS @Futtius Maximus The cabbages call to me

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Frontier Living

ROMAN EMPIRE imgflip.com Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three? ALEMANNI FRANKS GOTHS

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Here's How

O Carlos That Notices Things @BasQ.... 1d How do you even stop this I mean seriously??? The Macedonian phalanx, here shown in its fighting formation of 256 men, the syntagma. ROMAN MANIPLE MANIPUŁ 60 LUDZI (20 NA LEGION) Triarii ecipes @FUTTIUSMAXIMUS 20 LUDZI (20 NA Battle of Cynoscephalae decisive Roman victory-

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The Real History Of Rome

>$100 heh, my ancestors :) nooooo NOOOO!!!! $100 plebs who tf are u? slaves you are OUR descendant

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A Variety Of Takes Are Plausible

WHEN DID THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE START? lawful good neutral good 324 (CONSTANTINE MOVES CAPITALI lawful neutral 800 CEND OF PAPAL RECOGNITION) lawful evil 476/480 (WESTERN EMPIRE FALLS) inhgflip.com. 330 (CONSTANTINOPLE IS CONSECRATED true neutral THE TERM BYZANTINE IS ANACHRONISTIC ANACHRONISTIC neutral evil chaotic good 565 (JUSTINIAN FAILS TO REUNITE THE EMPIRE) chaotic neutral 641/C. 650 CARABS CONQUER EGYPT AND EASTERN PROVINCES) chaotic evil 285 BC (MEDIEVAL 395 (FINAL SPLIT) CHRONICLE.COM

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At Your Service

Please hold the line sir

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Church Debates

Translating the bible into a modern Greek from ancient, thereby causing a controversy within the orthodox church Pre independence Greek intellectuals Wanna see me do it again? made with mema

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How Things Have Changed

Head of Nation's Attire today 心 Head of Nation's Attire In the Past

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Kamehameha

My Hawaii for hundreds of years i will unify These islands we will see about that After British Arrive uses guns for 15 year long conquest- 76% depopulation- finally unified

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Where We're At

narratives grand post-modernity I don't want to play with you anymore

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Royal Marriages

You His aunt The Prince your father wants to marry you off to His cousin His sister His niece

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Theology

Protestant Metaphysics and scripture Confucian Morality and doctrine Tieping Christianity

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