Reminder that most of the core Roman pantheon actually developed from local Italian polytheism and then became Hellenized.

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The time has come to part with the pervasive girls boring, boys quirky meme format. We will remove future instances of it from the sub. We hope we can start the ball rolling for elsewhere in the history memesphere as well for our lady history buff friends.

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Stole this from the Facebook page “Slightly Lutheran memes for barely Protestant teens.”

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Bruhs making up a Classic-period empire with influence as far as the Yucatan when a real one already existed.

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Came across this on r/StarterPacks this morning but it seems to have disappeared and I’m giving it a new life here (not sure who OP was anymore).

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The built-in image generator from the YouVersion Bible app is really great for my inspirational reminders. 😌

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They call him Megatherium because he’s a BIG BEAST.

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I found this in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

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PSA meme: girls can be Byzaboos too and we have many in this community who would gladly use their time machines for the empire!

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Spinosaurus aegyptiacus reveals itself to be based and Alliedpilled because the Nazis never deserved it (and now my childhood was doomed to have no consensus on its size but that's OK now because there are new specimens and the Reich is gone).

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100,000 Romans, everyone! Thank you all for taking us this far!

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It's underappreciated that the Etruscan language was still used in some areas for soothsaying in the early Roman Empire and that Roman antiquarians of the period apparently still had access to Etruscan historical sources.

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For those who haven't looked at the modding SDK yet, this is the example custom civ Firaxis put in. Someone got paid to make this.

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Tag yourself: Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb (stolen from Mad Mughal Memes on Facebook).

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Nothing quite as niche as the German Empire.

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Hey, are you Chalchiuhtlicue? Because you look like you could guarantee healthy childbirth.

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I have heard so much about this pseudoscientific bullshit lately from my non-archaeologist friends trying to impress me, so this meme is a PSA.

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Reposting one of the early memes I made for this sub over a year ago.

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I’ve never seen Inca mythology on here.

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Hot take but among all the scientific advancements of the Arab world in the Middle Ages, the Arab Agricultural Revolution contributed most to the rise in urbanism and economic productivity that led to the Islamic world’s success and it’s done dirty as a footnote too often.

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Not mine, but here it is for your enjoyment.

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PSA for people with a shallow conception of history simply revolving around famous elites. To properly understand a period, you must realize that most people spent their lives in the lower class doing common economic activities and caring for family.

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Friendly reminder to join (and help revive) our child subreddit r/okbuddycolonizer where we post about what colonial apologists say and maybe even meme them a bit.

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Stolen from Innoxious Inca Memes on Facebook.

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You’ve all been interpreting jaguar incense burner wrong. He is saying his daily salah and the textiles simply don’t preserve well. الثقافة توتشيتلان كانت مسلمة. أمين.

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Last minute bronze-age collapse meme.

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Salama, friends.

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All y’all cats suck.

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Gonna be honest though. Like many of the other archaeology majors I know, I've binged the show to laugh at it.

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Doedicurus was the chad among the megafauna

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The goyim are not as good at Red Sea routes, you know.

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Recognition for Cahokia and this oft-forgotten cradle of civilization.

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Megalania was a gigantic Australian monitor lizard around 7 meters long that only went extinct around 50,000 years ago, possibly due to controlled burning by Aboriginal peoples or climate change.

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Sino-Hellenic cultural exchange beginning in the Qin Dynasty is an under-appreciated thing.

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Important news: our memes have hit Facebook and are getting shared to large meme groups from the page of one of our subscribers (who has kindly tagged the sub handle). Tag the sub in your memes if you want to help the community grow. We’re going big, guys.

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Arwa al-Sulayhi was sultana of Yemen in the late 1000s and early 1100s and one of the most powerful women in the history of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Alexander’s wang was probably a five-meter long spear. Change my mind.

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Hey, look, we’re finally significant enough to have people make memes about our community in other subs.

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Resuming peace-time posting with some love for the Mapuche

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Baby, it’s cold outside

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Eat those jungle foods.

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The missing city.

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Made this for the Discord and don’t have a good place to put it so here you go.

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Thomas Thorowgood and various eccentrics in the centuries afterwood

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[OC] Low-effort Nazca posting.

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To arms!

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Friendly reminder that Norte Chico was possibly the most densely-populated region on Earth in the third millennium BC and was building large-scale structures before Egypt's Old Kingdom even began.

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Have you kids even studied this war? Really?

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[OC] Classic Mayan Collapse

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Spearthrower Owl's glyph looks like Duo looks in my phone notifications when I don't practice my Nahuatl and am instead messing around with Ch'olti'.

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We all have that one naive friend who claims the Europa War was kicked off by the Empire's inherently genocidal ideology rather than being a local economic struggle that took several years to actually become anything like the interstellar war it's romanticized as.

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1K, BOYS. WAKAN TANKA IS WATCHING OVER US THIS DAY.

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Low-effort reference to the Maritime Foundation of Andean Civilization (Moseley, 1973)

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u/allonzehe suggested I should make this a meme.

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Where my agricultural historians at?

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الله اكبر.

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Jeanne has gaming advice.

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Historiography

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[OC] Columbus Day

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Geoff comments on a Captain Underpants advertisement to tell people about marijuhauna and I don't know which stance he's taking.

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Someone made a personal account called NewCreation InChrist with a screenshot as a profile pic and my aunt shared the screenshot.

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[OC] Ice-Free Corridor.

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The superior color

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[OC] The Jewish people in transition from Babylonian to Persian rule.

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I got a friend request by a pretty obvious fake account posing as a hot girl and posting sketchy links. I went to the profile pic and found this poor “eterno sonador” in the comments. I’ll post a rough translation in the comments on here.

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Bosses in Greece seem intimidating.

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Bernie Sanders is winning my election and I need to rig it.

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r/DankPrecolumbianMemes has declared war to support its allies against the weeb menace. Your waifus belong to Huitzilopochtli now.

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Greetings from r/DankPrecolumbianMemes! We are here to aid r/HistoryMemes in its war against the weebs and to offer the hearts of their waifus to Huitzilopochtli.

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Hello, everyone. Join us in the meme war! History shall triumph over anime this day.

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Doubt

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I looked at the comments on the UN’s Facebook page and learned that Sweden is some sort of dystopian nightmare.

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Grandpa Don posts vertical bar

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A little love for the singular account we get our popular account of Viking burial accounts from.

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YouTube has shown me a very glorious horse.

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