We’ve gotta hand it to ourselves: considering that human beings have only been on Earth for about 0.007% of the entire time it has existed, we sure have done a lot of stuff and things. Naysayers will point out that we only consider these to be important because we have no sense of a wider perspective, but from where I’m standing the passage of time has been both relentless and extremely eventful. We’re even making history as we speak.

From an overly online perspective, one of the best things about the rich history of humanity is that we get plenty of material for history memes. The past may be full of tragedies, but most of them happened so long ago that nobody can accuse us of joking about them too soon. If you consider yourself a historian, you’re sure to find some amusement in the images you can find below.