47 Memes That Prove History Class Doesn’t Have To Be Boring

I got the gay sir, I won't be able to make it in

And what about Julius Caesar or Hamlet? I did always feel that Brutus and Cassius were written as though they were lovers but they died for Rome

Pretty sure he wrote a play mocking the whole "dying for love" thing.

Nope, honor.

Think you got it backwards! He loved death! (Just a silly joke)

First you had to survive the journey... then the wildlife!

What’s that orb in the sky? They call it “sun”. Why am i so uncomfortable and wet? You are sweating, because it’s hot.

if you survive the voyage. Many didn't.

Go check out what the prisoners had to do, in what heat and conditions. And the death rate. You could be descended from the prisoners or those that paid to go. Different places.

Sure. You have no issues whatsoever and everything is hunky dory.

If they're as smart as they think they are, they will stay away forever.

History disagrees. The greatest empires the world has ever seen were founded on violence. The fact that they eventually fell isn't relevant, because everything ends sometime.

have you read history? It's literally written by the winners.

Genghis Khan disagrees with you, considering a definable percentage of the world population is decended from him

Reality doesn't agree with you.

What history book are you looking at???? Who lost in the long run? W*F? Seriously every single current nation exists on the back of massive violence over every single time period.

walking and drumming...

Lot had daughters, and Cains wife came from somewhere. I think her name was LUCY

... as was the style at the time.

The Bible says that Adam lived until 930 years old. Their is a Bible character named Methuselah at Gensis 5:27 mentions he lived until 969 years old. Noah lived until over 800 years old. It was only after the flood did age really started to drop.

Still genetically impossible

And let's face it WWI was basically a cousin fight with 3 most prominent leaders all having the common grandmother in Queen Victoria

Uncles and nieces are closer than cousins. And they did that. They had less a family tree and more a family wreath.

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The Hapsburgs beg to differ.

Well, the French king Louis the 14th married his double-first cousin (meaning that paternal and maternal parents were also siblings), his younger brother, Philip, married his cousin "English" Henriette, later he became "Europe's grandfather", as his descendants were mariied into every European royal family, Philip's son (also Philip) married a daughter of King Louis the 14th. In the early modern period, first cousin marriages were really common between the nobility. Not to mention, Darwin was the first, who realized, maybe first cousin marriages are not that good idea, after he also married a cousin. Guess why was it worthy of mentioning? Because first cousin marriages were common to hold together the wealth of the family.

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Well, the Habsburgs converted marrying into the family into an art form. His aunt was also his grandmother, and the other grandmother was also his great-grandmother. They did not have a family tree, but a family wreath.

*The Hapsburg's have entered the chat*

The closest were actually uncle-niece marriages, those were not common. Cousin marriages were.

So true. I am glad I work where I have a pension, but fck, it won't get better. *me working at 92, generation Z++ bellyaching about people not retiring, me going, I need a bag of groceries this month*

Pyla: well, the Romans did steal most of their gods from the Greeks... 😁

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