41 History Memes for People Who Like to Live in the Past (September 25, 2023)

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John Summers • Contributor
Sep 25, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Ah, history! That magical time where gladiators checked their social media in the Colosseum waiting room and Cleopatra was caught texting Julius Caesar the ancient equivalent of "U up?" No? Not how it went down? Well, if you're someone who daydreams of historical epochs but also indulges in modern meme culture, boy, do we have a treat for you! Dive deep into this treasure trove of 41 history memes, carefully curated for all you time travelers wishing to chuckle at the past. 

These memes are so historically accurate (correction: hysterically inaccurate) they could give any history book a run for its money. Forget the textbooks; this listicle is your entertaining crash course on world history. So, fasten your horse-drawn chariots, get your parchment scrolls ready, and enjoy this hilarious jaunt down memory lane - and remember, it's today's date, 2023, not 1323!

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    Furniture - Ottomans in 15th century Ottomans in the 21st century MA
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    Clothing - GOTH VISIGOTH
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    Font - Harry Tuffs @skelicopter.1d Fun fact: Ever wondered why it's called The Iliad? Because llium was another name for Troy, and the -ad suffix was used to mean "The Story of." This means that, if you translated the title, The Iliad should actually be called Troy Story. 572 awed-frog thanks I hate it 32,5K siderealsandman You Got a Friend In Horse 148K garrettauthor YOU DO NOT HAVE A FRIEND IN HORSE
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    Glasses - Peasants: please buy us some food Tsar Nicholas: Egg.
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    Facial expression - BRONZE: IS THE PRIMARY MATERIAL FOR TOOLS AND WEAPONS THE HITTITES: I'm about to end this ALLOY'S whole AGE imgflip.com
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    Forehead - Alan Turing: I just figured out the Nazi coding system, giving us a major advantage in the war effort. Isn't that great? Britain: Ga y
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    Smile - @lamHappy Toast It belongs in a museum In its country of origin right? In its country of origin right?
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    Gesture - Sumerians 3500 BCE: Discover how to make bronze LET ME IN LET ME INNNNNN!!! [adult swim) [adult swin
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    Font - 1066 Huscarl, Battle of Hastings 1244 Knight, Siege of Jerusalem 1415 Archer, Battle of Agincourt 1485 Man-at-Arms, English Civil War 48 1645 New Model Army musketeer, Battle of Naseby 1709 private sentinel, Battle of Malplaquet 1815 private soldier, Battle of Waterloo ETITI n 1916 private soldier, Battle of the Somme HILDO 1944 lance corporal, Parachute Brigade, Battle of Arnhem 2014 close-support sapper, Royal Engineers, Helmland Province VIA 9GAG.COM
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    Hair - Bronze Age mindset: Odysseus was offended by the insinuation that he was a merchant, not that he was a city sacking pirate.
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    Font - SparkNotes @SparkNotes IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT JULIUS CAESAR? HBD = hey bring daggers ASL = a soothsayer! listen BRB = betrayal? really brutus? OP = onward plebeians LMS = let mark speak JFC = just forget cicero OTP = obliterate the poet TF = then fall (caesar) 10:02 AM 3/15/22 Twitter Web App
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    Nose - Ancient Michael Jackson isnt real! He can't hurt you. Ancient Michael Jackson: heeheegypt
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    Font - Long Boi Sword Identification Chart Heckin Broad Boi Jibby Jabber SpadrUwUn Snek Sword Oh Lawd He Cutting Pokey Boi Nope Fren/ Chop Stop Stibby Stabberino Lordy Swordy / Knighty Fighty Bend Friend Smol Boi -Heckin Lorg Chonk Prancer Lancer Tickle Stick
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    Mouth - Monotheism Ancient Egypt Akhenaten Polibiux
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    Water - Scandinavian tourist groups visiting the UK for their Yuletide shopping trip. Circa 800 AD.
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    Forehead - china: *invents gunpowder* indians: cool mongols: cool japanese: cool europeans:
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    Product - tilthat Follow TIL In 552AD two monks successfully smuggled silkworm eggs in their walking sticks from China to the Byzantine Empire, essentially ending the silk monopolies of China and Persia, and bringing silk manufacture to Europe. via reddit.com friendly-neig...ood-patriarch Follow Even funnier, it was funded, planned, and coordinated by the Emperor Justinian himself as a wild 'n wacky heist YEARS in the making. optimalmongoose3 Follow! Comedy heist movie set in 552 AD about these
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    Jaw - 2023 IS IN 2 MONTHS ME STILL PROCESSING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
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    Font - Machiavelli: go out with me? Her: No Machiavelli: Will your Chapter XXVI HOW STATES ARE RUINED ON ACCOUNT OF WOMEN
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    Train - OD 5X XORRA FI Belgium in Europe Belgium in the Congo Belgium in world wars
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    Poster - WERE YOU OR A LOVED ONE ATTACKED BY SEA PEOPLES? YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION. Imgflip.com
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    Organism - Egyptians: So we won the war against the Hittites at the battle of Kadesh, right? Ramses II: GELOOPRTIAU PANA Well yes, but actually no
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    Vertebrate - In 1719, prisoners in Paris were offered freedom as long as they were willing to marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana. HISTORYCOLLECTION.COM 10K Like QUINQUENFOIX Comment überfacts 556 Comments • 1.6K Shares . Share Tyler A proud tradition that they have carried on to this day
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    Cartoon - History channel be like : They did it themselves They needed aliens Ex
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    Forehead - ANY BAD EVENT IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE? imgflip.com SEA PEOPLES. HD HISTORY.COM
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    Water - The war is no longer to our advantage, we are leaving Egypt You are taking us with you, right? You are taking us with you, right?
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    Forehead - HISTORY HUSTLE Napoleon's brother, Louis, is known to this day as "The King of Rabbits" because he mispronounced the Dutch phrase "I am your king" and instead said "I am your rabbit" when he took over the Netherlands in 1806.
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    Human - Sun Tzu: "Always leave an exit for the enemy to leave." Today Romans- ANDR Surround them, for they were already dead."
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    Liquid - AJAX REASER THEIR SLOGAN IS "STRONGER THAN GREASE" AND I WAS LIKE OKAY YEAH MAKES SENSE FOR A DISH SOAP- WAIT AJAX WAS A GREEK SOLDIER RENOWNED FOR HIS STRENGTH AJAX IS STRONGER THAN ALL OF GREECE someone who worked at ajax has literally waited 66 years for you to get this
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    Helmet - PICTS or it didn't happen ICANHASCHEEZEURGER.COM
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    Building - What we think people from the 14th Century would be mind blown by: What they'd really be mind blown by: cockto www.Spices 13 ONEPLUS 8:08 Town rem
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    Horse - "What's your plan to invade Rome?" Hannibal: All right, so here we are in front of the elephants,
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    Font - Maria !!! @MariaSmal_ Guys, the history of marathons is kinda wack.... a guy in ancient greece died after running 26 miles & what do we do to honor him? We run 26 miles & ... NOT die ? ppl decided to just flex on him for the rest of eternity? If anyone pulls smthng like that on me it's instant hands 2:57 PM - 18 Jul 20 Twitter for iPhone
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    Photograph - amy When you visit Carthage a B aland When carthage visits you
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    Horse - When you call your gf "Hun" Hey Hun, What they think you mean shuterstrok Honey www.shutterstock.com 104234180 What you actually mean
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    Joint - When she looks through your phone but all she can find is: 400 3 Babbel course ancient Egpytian fire fighting techniques in Egypt in the 1st and 2nd century BC what date did the Library of Alexandria burn down? how to build a time machine K 71 71 71 K K
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    Face - I sell high quality Copper ingots Ea-Nasir That's why no one will remember your name
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    Liquid - 2000 ANA V woods.com 401 leng Cat M KRAFT CLASSIC CAESAR Nutrition Facts nd PER ww www T R ww YORK They S www www.br y *WW* WELEE
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    Font - Holy Roman Empire Who came here from facebook lol 40 38 3 B Reply 11 Byzantine Empire 3 days ago How are you verified as the roman empire 1 week ago Reply
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    Font - creating an alphabet for your language creating an alphabet for your language then deciding to use a cooler one some other people made instead of creating an alphabet just makes a letter for every word in your language not having an alphabet for your language, stealing one from your neighbors and using it in the wrong way then also creating 2 new alphabets for your language and using all 3 at once LEKKE SPOR Har 22 K
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    Forehead - When an Austrian guy takes over Germany and invades Poland with Russia so you as an Indian are sent by the British to Singapore to fight the Japanese. J OVEN A=xr² C = 2xr amy alamy frinade - C pode-sjon -alamy V=ar²h A = xr² C = 2tr DISPROPAGANDA.COM V=nr³h alam Smy alamy V=xrh Jand IAA 1100 ala 111
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