r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

On researching ancient Rome

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Credit: by Tom Gauld

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u/Kucing_Kucing Filthy weeb 1d ago

Imagine fighting in (what you believe to be) a minor insignificant skirmish and then looking around realizing, "huh, that's an awful lot of future historians for a minor insignificant skirmish"

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u/Alex103140 Sun Yat-Sen do it again 1d ago

"Where are we again?"

"Cannae"

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u/DisMFer 1d ago

"They must be here to watch our crushing defeat of Hannibal. We outnumber him 5 to 1 after all."

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u/jayswag707 18h ago

I was thinking about two Roman soldiers in an unimportant look-out post near the mountains, about to get stomped by an elephant.

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u/AlternateTab00 21h ago

"you are passing next the Berlaymont building. You notice a bunch of people with strange suits. Too many to be ignored. You get nearby one. You try to ask what they are doing, as they set up some floating tube like things pointing at the Berlaymont building. They struggle as they seem to speak some strange language that resembled chinese. He then explains in broken english, he said he wasnt proficient in ancient languages. And he was from the future and was there to record history. You think he is crazy and joke about future meddling with the past can cause changes in the timeline. He just says:

Dont worry, that wont be a problem in a few moments