Human history is full of gruesome power struggles, cruel executions, sickening genocides, famine, disease, and history facts sometimes seems unappealing and grim, to say the least. Luckily, Twitter account @MemesOnHistory is shedding some light on our past's interesting facts by using the internet's most beloved funny memes.
The best part, however, is that almost all of these historical memes are so accurate, publishers could even include them in their textbooks. And they should. Students would probably relate to history memes better and understand the historical events better if, for example, SpongeBob SquarePants excerpts were used to illustrate the Second World War or US Middle East Policy. Scroll down to enjoy this list of some of the best memes, compiled by Bored Panda, and while you're at it, pay attention and learn some funny history facts, why don't you!
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Well as Robin Williams once said. "If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."
'All of history' since the 15th/16th century. History is more than the 'white man's' civilisation.
Aaand no cats around, cause witchhunts and cats are evil propaganda.... There you go Europe!
And they say homo sapiens is the smartest animal on the planet, ah?? Not according to 90% of human history 🙃🙃
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It wasn't the poor rats fault, he got invaded by those nasty fleas and now he gets blamed for it all
At least one other person on here saw Ratatouille (or generally knows a little history) :-)
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It's because the church killed all the cats, they thought the cats represent the devil, and booom! Instant 25 mil. karma
You mean 1 plague carrying gerbil. It's a common misconception that rats started the plague. It was actually gerbils that brought it to Europe.
This is the modern theory but I guess even if rats didn't start it, they spread it because they were way more than the gerbils
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The rats were carriers, unaffected by Yersinia pestis, the plague virus that was in their blood, spread by the fleas that infested them.
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people in london used to burn cats for fun.That is why no cat ate a mouse
It seems a little unlikely that one rat killed that many people. Most likely a boatload of rats infested that then multiplied.
The newer evidence shows that it was actually the overpopulation and poor sanitary conditions mostly at fault, or so I've read...
Nordic sailors be like, "Yeah, we go there to fish and stuff, but there's already people living there."
Admittedly beside the point of the nice meme, but flags of countries that didn't even participate are present, while flags of participating countries like Italy - that not only did participate, but is also in the top 5 of most casualties - are missing.
Summer '89, I visit W. Germany, touch the Wall. Nov. 9 '89, Wall comes down. Coincidence?
Prohibition didn't completely ban alcohol. Commercial production and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned, as was importation, but private citizens were allowed to brew beer for personal consumption. Commercial breweries had to keep alcohol content below 0.5%, but many managed to stay afloat by selling brewing supplies to the public.
Or Bill Clinton when he saw Monica Lewinsky approaching as he was standing with Hillary.
Late start of operations, bad condition of the roads in Russia, the russians strategy of retreating in towards Syberia and seting fire to everything they couldn't take so the enemy won't find any resurces... basically every time some nation tried to invade them got caught there by the winter and got defeated by the hard weather conditions for wich they were not prepered
If only US Schools made understanding this document a requirement.....
Dam right John ! Socialism like chipping in to protect the weaker and not let them starve on the streets, how dumb is that ?! Ahahaha !! Better have a Donald and two wars you cannot end, but you are the smart ones ! Yey ! Stupid French we are !
I laughed out loud at this one and then felt kinda bad about my reaction..
The Treaty of Versailles was a very risky idea to begin with, to be honest
Someone should tell Rihanna that blinking and winking are two separate things.
We told them the wealth would "trickle down" and they actually believed it!
1) The war known as the Great War is WW1. 2) As it may be true that antisemitism did exist from a long time ago, it wasn't really used as a campaign folly until after the events of WW1. 3) The helmet and cross shown are of the German Empire, not the third reich. 4) Italy and Germany were allies for WW2, not WW1.
Why are there so many communist memes? John's having a political-bitching field day. No offense John. Maybe offense John? I don't know. I'm not a Communist, but you're really whiny about how much you think they suck.
OJ: Oh! Did someone killed her? Police: We said she was dead, interesting you said killed...
I dont think napoleon made it to moscow, but he made it further than hitler. Hitler could have learned a thing or too. They made the same mistakes. Napoleon lost bc of winter. Hitler lost bc of winter. PACK SOME F*****G WINTER CLOTHES
Just think, I wasted all that time, effort, and money, working for a degree in history, and I could have accomplished the same thing in one simple, honest, and highly accurate set of lessons from this wise person. :(
Why half these (accurate pictures on history) are attacking the christian religion or the european people (AKA white man)? No other nation ever invaded another one outside european nation? No other religion outside christianity ever was dogmatic and closed to science? This is more ideologically oriented propaganda than anything else. Also, i think the idea of sarcastic images have been used before, before they called it memes...
Cute, but incomplete. Each event would need a series of memes. Huh. Might get today's generation excited about history.
Oh man... all the butthurt comments on this completely made up for the time i wasted reading it :)
Just think, I wasted all that time, effort, and money, working for a degree in history, and I could have accomplished the same thing in one simple, honest, and highly accurate set of lessons from this wise person. :(
Why half these (accurate pictures on history) are attacking the christian religion or the european people (AKA white man)? No other nation ever invaded another one outside european nation? No other religion outside christianity ever was dogmatic and closed to science? This is more ideologically oriented propaganda than anything else. Also, i think the idea of sarcastic images have been used before, before they called it memes...
Cute, but incomplete. Each event would need a series of memes. Huh. Might get today's generation excited about history.
Oh man... all the butthurt comments on this completely made up for the time i wasted reading it :)
