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Two memes from Reddit's /r/historymemes

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.

Many Names

OKAY KARTVELIANS, WE NEED A NEW NAME EVERYONE KEEPS CONFUSING US WITH THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE IBERIANS. Khazaria Byzantine Empire Iberia Sassanid Udistan (Azerbaijan) Ducky of Armenia Arsacid Armenia HOW ABOUT GEORGIA? WE WON'T BE CONFUSED ANYMORE! imgflip.com4RAPAT

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Empire

Imperial Britain Imperial Britain The Bible telling you to treat everyone with kindness and respect The Bible telling you to treat everyone with kindness and respect I'll ignore that.

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Astronomically Accurate

How we see Saturn How Galileo saw Saturn

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France's Long 19th Century

When you've overthrown the Bourbons twice and they somehow get restored to the throne a third time They can't keep getting away with it

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Best Since The Phalanx

EVERYONE ELSE MARCHING AS ONE. SHOOTING SLOW VOLLEYS POTENT THE LION COMMANDING THE MEN TO ADVANCE TO 30 PACES, SHOOT, FIX BAYONETS AND CHARGE INTO MELEE

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Almost A Romance Language

ITALIAN SPANISH FRENCH יהן פעעענד WELSH

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English is more Germanic than Welsh, which has roots back in Roman Britain.

The Only Right Name

Catholic colonial empires naming new places they've settled: You'll be a saint.

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Tchaikovsky

Never Ask A Woman Her Age A Man, His Salary Tchaikovsky, His Crush

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Colonial Policy

France after creating a caste system in Algeria that denied Muslim Algerians basic civil rights but elevated the status of Algeria's native Jewish population to become French citizens, placing them in proximity to European settlers. Thereby dividing and creating animosity and hatred between two peoples who had lived together mostly peacefully for centuries:

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You Wake Up And It's 1763

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M GOING TO BE IN A CIVIL WAR AGAINST OTHER BRITISH PEOPLE AND THE FRENCH ARE GOING TO BACK ME IN TWENTY-ONE YEARS? I JUST BUILT FORT NECESSITY FOR OUR KING GEORGE II! imgflip.com

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Little did young George Washington know…

Possible Uses

DEFENCE DEPARTMENT: NASA CAN YOU MAKE YOUR NEW SHUTTLE ABLE TO CAPTURE SATELLITES SOUCES DO YOU WANT TO CAPTURE SATELLITES? 20 I COULD WANT TO CAPTURE SATELLITES

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Good Floods Bad Floods

I hope we don't all die in another unpredictable flood this year and have to restart our civilization... Mesopotamia made with mematic Ah yes the nile is about to flood, should be a good harvest this year!!!! Egypt GENILDO

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Diplomatic History

I'm an expert in diplomacy Treaty of Paris Oh yeah? Name 3 treaties That's on me, I set the bar too low.

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Iron Curtain

East germans were stupid.. why didn't they simply go around the Berlin wall to join the west? the east german who just had a micro sec though of leaving east Germany T Makabag Sac M

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Making Of Modern Linguistic Nationalism

Celtic Languages You can't defeat me. The English I know, but he can. Compulsory Primary Education

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People used to be out here speaking Occitan.

Hellenistic Culture

Romans turned Alexander Alexander the great into the femboy.... the historical figure Early Bust of Alexander the Great by Lysippos (possibly made from life) the "fanart" www. W Later, Roman copy of Alexander the Great bust (centuries after his death)

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Might As Well Have A PhD

THE "I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ANCIENT GREECE" STARTER PACK. AGE Po MYTHOLOGY ASSASSIN'S CREED ODYSSEY K PITT BADA BLOOM TROY PERCY JACKSON GREEK HEROES RICK THE HEEOTS STIGENDARY ADVENTURES RIORDAN

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Industrialization

0 OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE The United CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR Kingdom with a 80 year start on the industrial revolution OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR made with mematic The US right after the Civil War about to catch up with them exera Fabulous COMICS ZMS

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What Was Perhaps Inevitable

The US starting and winning a war with Mexico to gain new territory 2822 CIVIL WAR!

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What It All Is

Come learn the national heritages of the various States of Europe! We have: Germanic Noblemen LARPing as Romans Germanic Noblemen LARPing as Romans Germanic Noblemen LARPing as Romans Germanic Noblemen LARPing as Romans Germanic Noblemen LARPing as Romans

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Kaiser and Tsar are both ways of saying "Caesar."

Aristocratic Diet

English nobility VS Spanish nobility today i will have eggs and butter today i will have a clay pot of course my lady and what will you eat? I will eat the clay pot

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Spooky

Dracula in modern pop culture: Dracula in the book: imgflip.com I'm a tragic, tortured, depressed and romantic charmer. I straight up eat babies.

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Early Republic Debates About Etiquette

You should refer to the President as "His Elective Majesty" or "His Highness, the President of the United States of America and the Protector of their Liberties" Ralph Izard, President pro temp of the Senate Ok, Your Rotundity John Adams

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John Adams was a stickler for ceremony, and many other Founding Fathers were not.

Great Power

They don't know I almost ruled the entire world

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Titan Of Industry

The US government to J.P. Morgan (the man) in 1895: Bernie I am once again asking for your financial support.

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