24 Memes From Wilder Times In Our History

History memes offer some fun glimpses into the past and a way to make your high school history classes worthwhile. While one might not expect history to have a devoted fan base online, there's a very real and very widespread online devotion to history memes. Maybe all those years we spent in the classroom actually made us interested in the subject to some extent, because it seems a lot of people have a lot of things to say about the events that unfolded hundreds and even thousands of years ago.

If you're one of these people, or you think there's a possibility you might be, the following images should entertain you enough to get you checking some weird facts on Wikipedia. While these memes are entertaining and pretty funny, there's also a good chance they can teach you a thing or two, too. Here are some of our favorite memes based on the distant and not-so-distant past.