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Paging all history nerds! These historical memesare a little more specific than our usual galleries - and they'll please anyone with a bizarre fascination with the Roman Empire. If your interest in the past covers broader subjects, check out this wider variety of history memes. They'll only disappoint if you're anything less than a meme scholar.

Gather 'round kids because we're about to give you a nice big helping of historical knowledge in the form of memes, which is always vastly more interesting than any history class you could ever sit through!

We cover a lot of history memes, but you don't need a funny picture to find the past interesting or hysterical. These Tumblr posts are an amazing reminder of the hilarity of yesteryear, as well as some pretty freakin' cool facts. 

We love nerding out over history pics and trivia tidbits. If you're also into that kind of thing, then you'll definitely love these photos that show different angles of well-known historical events that you almost certainly haven't seen before.

Go check out Life in Moments on Twitter for more fascinating pics from history!

We have to give a big shout out to The Toast for throwing together this amusing gallery of women having a terrible time in classical paintings. And if we're being honest, it seems that times have not actually changed that much throughout the years...

These memes are for the history buffs and lovers of folklore. Ancient Greece was a fricken wild place according to the mythology alone, so it's no wonder that so many historians and nerds alike are completely fascinated by it!

If you love history as much as we do, then you're definitely going to love these educational memes that span from the ancient days to the Cold-War era. They're certainly more entertaining than sitting in your boring college history lecture.

If you're a history nerd then you're definitely going to go nuts over these pics that document little-known events from modern history. And of course, if you'd like to see even more, check out Twitter account History in Snaps!

Whenever any old person complains about how life today is "so violent" or that this generation is "going downhill," all you have to do is show them a few of these memes, which show how incredibly f*cked up people were in the past. Like, damn, at least we don't burn people at the stake for being witches anymore!

Writer Michael Harriot dropped some serious history knowledge on Twitter this past Saturday and left us with slightly bigger brains and some serious chills. The Bahamas have been heavily featured in the news following the devastation of Hurricane Dorian, and this Twitter thread gives some powerful background on the history of the storm-ravaged island nation. Michael Harriot's expert storytelling (even when limited to 280 characters) gives serious oomph to an already compelling black history narrative of slaves and ex-slaves sticking it to the man. 

History memes, but make them spicy! These funny tidbits are for people who like their educational comedy with a little extra edge. Just make sure that your ultra PC friends don't see 'em and we good.

The seemingly immortal Blinking White Guy reaction memes are pretty damn timeless, but they've seen a huge resurgence this week, particularly on Instagram and in the r/dankmemes subreddit. This time around, the memes are being used to describe the first guy to ever do XYZ. The actions range from something as simple as sleeping to extremely specific meme references. While kind of basic and low-effort, the meme has become extremely popular, and is being twisted and turned into quite the formidable format. As with any meme trend, many people on Reddit are lamenting its popularity, but we definitely welcome most memes that require little to no brain power to understand. 

Chances are, you'll probably recognize at least some of these things from your childhood days of staying at your grandparents' house - we certainly did. Definitely brings back those fond memories of opening up the basement closet and finding some of the toys and games your parents used to play with. A lot of this stuff you probably even forgot existed, so get ready for a major nostalgia trip!

We love a good copypasta, and Twitter seriously delivered this week with this history-related meme. The text in question reads "Scientists at Harvard University have created this 3D Model depicting what ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra may have looked like," and Twitter users have been pairing it with funny 3D images and pics of celebrities. It's a great joke. So great that many people don't realize that it's tongue and cheek, and actually protest the images. We love gullible know-it-alls. They add so much extra humor to memes like this.

It's a tradition that the older generations have to hate on the younger generations for absolutely any reason they can think of. Doesn't matter what for, because it was just "better back in the day," in their logic. 

Self-described "recovering academic" Jenny Bann pulled up some hilariously enlightening historical records of the behavioral problems exhibited by 18th century male students in Scotland. 

Let's just say they're...less than wholesome and make Millennials look angelic in comparison.