History Teacher Reacts to Funny History Memes!

Mr. Terry explains funny history memes from this compilation from VaazkL @VaazkLShorts!

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[MrTerry]

How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

[loveitftw]

'The bad guy that actually wasn't a bad guy', was most def a certain Austrian with a funny mustache. The person that answered it got its comment removed.
Homie even wrote a sidenote on the screen next to it saying "I wonder what they typed..." Lol

[chris-parker]

1. If returning an artifact "home, " who are you returning it to? The true descendents of those peoples or the current occupiers of the land? Who has ownership rights to an extinct civilization?

2. What is to become of those artifacts? Will they be charrished and maintained, or will they be sold to line the pockets of politicians and war lords? Do we get a say in what happens? What if they want to melt down the gold emblom that shows the location of the Arc of the Covenant in the map room?

3. Will the artifacts be better off sitting in a foreign museum and "leased" when there is political/social strife or all-out war?

[KillerChrono]

You know what's hilarious. When you see the Wolf to Dog comparisons, then look at Wild Cat to "House" Cat comparisons. And realize; A) we did canines dirty and B) cats literally haven't changed... like at all.

[FrostbiteKelvin]

About the black teeth, AKA teeth blackening, is a is a custom of certain oceanic, southest asian and american groups that found it as a sign of beauty. In Japan it is called Ohaguro (lit. Black Teeth) and is usually related to geishas.

[ewouteveraert]

12:35 And the students still celebrate this every year. With beer of course, massive amounts of beer.

[fuseblower]

Switzerland has a navy despite being landlocked. They're patrolling their lake... or perhaps they're preppers for when the sea level rises. 😁

As for museums giving back stuff. There's no way we (the Dutch) will return the stern decoration of the Royal Charles. We stole that ship fair and square in the battle of the Medway.

[mutecryptid]

Blackened teeth were a sign of nobility or wealth, because they were able to afford sugar but weren’t aware of the effects it has on teeth. Adding black charcoal(?) to the teeth caught on as a fashion trend from this, and I believe it occurred in a few cultures.

[kargaroc]

As much flack the british museum gets, they're probably responsible for many many many artifacts still existing today instead of being destroyed in unstable regions.

[davidsp]

So... it got me wondering... so, I HAD to look it up:

Mongolia does NOT, currently, have a Navy. However, their civilian Border Force operates on Buir Lake, part of the border with the PRC. In the event of war, the military has the authority to absorb a list of civilian agencies, including the Border Force.

[WookieWarriorz]

europeans did everything with mummies, they had unwrapping parties, ground them up to make fertilizer, paint like mummie brown, supplements like mumia, pigments for makeup etc.

[cardinalhamneggs]

07:50
The best part of this is that, in _Mystery Inc., _ Scooby is canonically descended from an ancient race of animal gods.

[d.c.]

The popularly-known plague doctor beak masks were used in the early modern period: 17th-century, not around the time of the 14th-century Black Death.

[Jan_Koopman]

1:20 Doesn't really matter what it originally said. Any answer would be extremely controversial and thus removed by either moderators or the commenter themselves. That is the joke.

[Haldjas_]

Museums/couzntries shouldn't give back artefacts in most of the cases. While it is true that in hindsight these things would count as stolen, i rather have them honored in a museum where they are actually cared for than a third world country where those things just magically vanish from one day to the other. If it was actually save to bring them back to their origin countries i'd be all for it but sadly 90% of the stuff ends up in some private collection where it rots away never to be seen again.

[bulldowozer]

5:40 This also implies, that every battle has about equal amounth of fighters on either side.

[JustFC]

No, museums should not give artifacts back, some artifacts were stolen, a lot were sold to the British, and if it wasn't in the museums, we would probably never have heard of it since it would've been broken up and sold as scrap in Africa somewhere (I've seen Africans do this with bronze statues)

[anathardayaldar]

14:00
1950s: Some day we will have flying cars, space cruisers, cure cancer, world peace.
2020s: Please don't drink bleach. No the Earth is not flat. Yes we did go to the moon.

[IulianYT]

5:00 - regarding Mongol Navy - they have lakes, not as big as "Great lakes", but big enough for ships.

[dutch]

11:25 Maybe it's one of those 'two things can be true at the same time' situations.
Especially if one rises high enough you shouldn't trust either the guy that just cannot shut up (will reveal secrets) or the guy who never says what he thinks (possible plotter). Yes-men are also in the second category.