Fresh History Memes That Poke Fun At The Past

The era we're living through seems pretty bleak most of the time. It's hard to ignore the pandemic and our current political shitshow. But the past has been just as bleak, if not more. These dank history memes use humor to lighten up that darkness. As a bonus? They're kind of educational! 

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Mountainous landforms - An asteroid wiping out nearly every species on earth Mammals Lizards

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When your job consists on protect the life of the Emperor but somehow the cause of death of the 25% of the Emperors: you end up being PRETORIN GARD

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Barechested - Çaligula leading his forces to show Neptune what is what

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Cartoon - Isn't it weird that we live longer than boys? Yeah, its really weird What strategy are you going to use to defeat Hannibal, Varro? Strategy? I have 77000 Roman soldiers and the Jupiter's favor on my side, I don't need a strategy.

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Photo caption - The Romans The Egyptians

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Cartoon - IVE FINALLY FOUND IT... AFTER 15 YEARS THE SCROLL OF TRUTH! Robotatertotcomics NYEHH Spears were almost always the primary weapon and swords were mostly just sidearms

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Text - When someone says the 5th Chinese Dynasty was the Ming Dynasty It's Han, but that's ok.

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Human - King of Spain Holy Archduke Lord of the Duke of Roman of Austria Netherlands Burgundy Emperor This is getting out of hand. Now there are five of them!

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Motor vehicle - King Louis XVI trying to escape Paris Jean-Baptiste Drouet recognizing the King from a portrait

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Cartoon - James Cook: *Discovers New Zealand Maori: *Does the Haka* James Cook and his crew: CO Mom come pick me up I'm scared

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White-collar worker - Founding Fathers King George II IN CONGRESS, JULY 4 1756. A DECLARATION By TAr REPRESENTATIVES oY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Is GENERAL CONGRESS ASSENEL 2n. A C Tei W S ey AM M re CK enc ন oro n i t HIEN ne HB

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Text - Britain watching the US fight a war against Mexico and force territorial concessions through an unequal treaty: Not bad kid

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Media - America vivo South American country Edt Add to contacts Hey guys so we've decied to elect a leader democratically Thave to go.

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Sign - HOLD ON, HAS ANYONE SEEN Canada? AHEM. I GOT THIS We beat America! War of 1812 Kicked their Ass! Burned the White Heuse Canadian Militia Best Militial OFF DAMI

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Photo caption - Philippines: Finally we're free from the Spanish! USA:

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Photo caption - wartime_memes Georgia Lincoln LSA approving Scorched Earth tactics General Sherman

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Organism - WAITING FOR GOOD WEATHER TO INVADE AN ENEMY COUNTRY INVADING ACOUNTRY DESPITE THE INEVITABLE WINTER. INVADING AN ENEMY COUNTRY DURING THE WORST WINTER IN RECORDED HISTORY NEARLY DESTROYING YOUR OWN ARMY BECAUSE YOU DIDNT PREPARE FOR YOUR OWN COUNTRY'S WINTER.

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Plant - TSAR NICOLASII BANNING ALCOHOL IN RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1914

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Cartoon - TURKEY IRAD IRAN EGYPT SADI ARABIA Tam not a prize to be won! @warpeddishey

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Job - Me explaining how the British and the French have caused every problem in modern history My sister who asked where the Middle East was

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Motor vehicle - *when time travel is invented* Girls : omg l'm gonna see my childhood Вoys: Archduke Ferdinand don't visjť the injured!

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Text - Holy Roman Empire: There are about 1800 Germanic states within the Empire. Napoleon: No, forget that, we're gonna consolidate this down to 34 German states. Otto von Bismarck: Germany is Germany!

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Easel - Napoleonic Wars tactics Early WW1 tactics wW1 Generals

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Motor vehicle - Allied troops going to the front line Allied troops returning from the front line

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Hair - Prohibition in a nutshell: US Government: STOP DRINKING ALCOHOL! US Citizens: THEME BY STARPONDS - YOU KNOWW WHAT? I'M GONNA START DRINKING EVEN HARDER.

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Photo caption - KGB to Stalin on his deathbed be like: KGB In terms of Doctors, we have no doctors At

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Cat - Czechoslovaks in Sudetenland waking up the morning after the Munich Agreement was signed like:

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Job - United States United Kingdom US wanting to stay The Zimmermann Telegram neutral

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Photo caption - The Nazis wondering how the hell the RAF is shooting down Luftwaffe planes Um...whatcha got there? Radars The Royal Air Force Carrots.

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Cartoon - Hey, isn't it weird how we live longer than men? Huh. Weird. Ok bois lets get those nazis PA 1-27 A13-13 we are all gonna die no shit sherlock

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Adaptation - Wehrmacht soldiers: retreat to Belarus Belarussian partisans waiting for the Germans since 1941: Welcome to the marshes 1motherf ckers

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Text - Argentina declaring war on Nazi Germany ...On March 27, 1945

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Line - When you're not involved in WWII but still get $250m from the Marshall Plan Wasn't expecting that reaction, but OK

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Text - i THE INDEPENDENT 6 MIN READ Opinion: France and Italy's rising tensions are as "high as WWII' - should we be worried? Tom Mumm Considering how useless both countries were in WW2, no. Like Reply O=0 53 49m

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Sky - CIA in every conflict U.S was involved after Ww2 CA tringtokil- Castro

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Adaptation - Soviet Union: We should use water from our rivers to irrigate our land: The Aral Sea:

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Organism - *American politician has a different opinion * Joe McCarthy: Communist detected on American soil. Lethal force engaged

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Adaptation - The Falklands Argentina Margaret Thatcher Argentina

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Skyscraper - Never forget how on nov 16, 1949 a bunch of Belgian students from Ghent took over a fortress and attacked the police with fruit because the city had raised the price of beer

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Mountainous landforms - Embarrassing two global superpowers within 30 years of each other Finland Vietnam

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Cartoon - After the Civil War: Dom Pedro Il of Brazil: "Move to Brazil. Slavery is legal and we'll help pay for your farms and transportation" 10,000 - 20,000 American Confederates :

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