30 Dank Memes Filled With Historical Humor

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Ada Elder
Nov 6, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

You don't have to be a historian to enjoy these memes. While they do reference some obscure dramas of yesteryear, the subject matter isn't so dense that you'll be completely lost. In fact, these history memes might even lead to something special: learning something. Which makes our constant mindless scrolling feel a little less shameful. Here's to knowledge!

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    Chin - the first caveman Berni discovering fire him accidentally dropping his meat in the fire Bernie eating it nevertheless to not waste any food Ber realizing that it makes the meat nie even tastier
    via FitzChevalric
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    Photograph - PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ADVANCING FROM STONE TO BRONZE TO IRON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICANS JUMPING STRAIGHT TO IRON IN 2500 BCE
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    Cartoon - When the scale says your heart is heavier than the feather of Ma'at EXIT (chuckles) I'm in danger.
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    Forehead - ATRADE OFFERA i receive: you receive: A big wooden horse Nothing haha, don't worry about it
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    Product - Trey the Explainer @Trey_Expl. · 17m After the death of his closest male confidant, Hephaestion, Alexander the Great refuses to eat, cries in bed for weeks, creates one of the most expensive funerals in the ancient world in his honor, and then subsequently dies within 8 months of losing him. Historians: Like, are they friends?
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    Hair - Greece Greek Gods Rome
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    Military person - ATRADE OFFERA i receive: you receive: YOUR LAND. CULTURE
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    Smile - 476 A.D. Western Europe Eastern Europe 1453 A.D. Eastern Europe Western Europe
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    Forehead - ATRADE OFFER A i receive: Five meters of you receive: Thousands ground of dead young men Generals
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    Trousers - Viking warlords before every battle: I go to Valhalla!
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    Car - Home The Holy Roman Empire
    via FitzChevalric
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    Photograph - Hawaiians killing Captain Cook cuz he messed with them: oc_historymemes Hawaiians giving his body high funeral honors cuz they knew he was a "chief" and eventually returning it to his crew:
    via oc_historymemes
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    Hair - 30 Years War be like: Protestant Sweden ProtestantCatholic PŚweden France what? Catholic Protestant FAustria Denmark
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    Sleeve - timetraveller: what year is it? english peasant: we are at war with the france timetraveller: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
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    Forehead - European borders: developed over thousands of years of geography, conflict and political upheaval American state borders: This is an excellent rectangle!
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    Forehead - 20,000 Confederates in 1865 We were bad, but now we're Brazilian
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    Sleeve - US civilians thanking Eisenhower for Eisenhower, who starting the building of the just wanted to have an efficient interstate way to move highway system troops in wartime
    via u/EquivalentInflation
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    Human - When you ask an 1850s Irishman in New York why he immigrated.
    via FitzChevalric
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    Outerwear - Wabash, Indiana 1880: Wabash, Indiana was the first town to introduce electric street lights in the United States. Oct 29, 2020 https://www.stouchlighting.com> blog history-of-street-. : History of Street Lighting in the USA- Stouch Lighting MOTHS IN 1880: I go to Wabash
    via FitzChevalric
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    Forehead - Random countries from across the world declaring war on Germany a week before it surrenders hoping to get stuff and reparations from the allies: It's Free Real Estate
    via u/TheCookieCow
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    Shirt - The New York Times December 8, 1903 Man won't fly for a million years- To build a flying machine would require "the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanics for one million to ten million years." Wright brothers 9 days later ..and we took that personally
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    Forehead - Adolf Hitler after receiving his first shot of "Vitamins" from his soon to be personal physician: Hey, that's pretty good!
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    Forehead - Rommel: Can you send us some artillery and food? We are in the middle of France. German General: You re WHAT
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    Vertebrate - Japanese soldiers during ww2 when they see a US medic Geneva conventions That sign won't stop me, because I can't read!
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    Hair - UNCONDITIONAL UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER SURRENDER UNCONDITIONAL THE WAR SITUATION HAS DEVELOPED NOT SURRENDER NECESSARILY TO JAPAN'S ADVANTAGE imgflip.com
    via FitzChevalric
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    Forehead - Russia: We managed to send a dog to space! Humanity: OMG he's our hero! When will the good boy return?
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    Cloud - China and Taiwan arguing over who the real China is 22ETERR Bhutan deciding to recognise neither imgflip.com
    via u/johnlen1n
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    Sleeve - Dictators when naming their countries: @ceo.of.kebab "Democratic" Republic j"Free" "People's“ @ADAMTOTS
    via @ceo.of.kebab2
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    Forehead - Kaiser Wilhelm asking the Swiss ambassador "what would your 250k man army do if Germany invaded with 500k men." Kaiser Wilhelm when the Swiss ambassador replies "Shoot twice then go home."
    via u/UkuleleLeo
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    Font - china seljuks abbasid byzantine Mongols
    via u/Kingeror0770

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