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25 History Memes Which Are As Fun As They Are Factual
Some people love watching sports, some people love playing games, and some people love to spend their free time outside of work or school thinking about history. It's a unique hobby: the longer you look at it, the weirder the past appears to be. You learn about some arcane ritual that people really believed, or some random chance event that determined the next several centuries, and you see how truly brutal and odd the world can be and has been.
On Reddit's /r/historymemes, lovers of historical knowledge share some of what they've learned in the form of memes. It's almost impossible to browse the subreddit without learning something, even if it's a small thing. And it could end up being a thing that changes the way you see the world, or gives you context for understanding the headlines you're reading in the news.
Almost A Romance Language
(Source: Reddit)
English is more Germanic than Welsh, which has roots back in Roman Britain.
Making Of Modern Linguistic Nationalism
(Source: Reddit)
People used to be out here speaking Occitan.
Early Republic Debates About Etiquette
(Source: Reddit)
John Adams was a stickler for ceremony, and many other Founding Fathers were not.
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