History is one of the most fertile growing-grounds for memes. Looking back over the human past, it is full of Gigachads coping and seething, behaviors both based and cringe. In their own time, people of the past laughed about their world and worried about it just like people of today do. They fought and fled, built and destroyed, sowed and reaped.

While a modern-day phone or laptop would likely deeply confuse a Roman legionnaire, you'd have to imagine the same soldier committed to Rome would smile to see people two thousand years later still fascinated by the Empire and still thinking about it every day. History is a field that is always changing as scholars and citizens reinterpret what events meant. Nothing in history is ever sealed or closed; the book is always open and the pen is always in the hand of the living. These history memes from Reddit prove that there are still jokes to be made and history to be written.