History Memes

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War

I heard linking Wikipedia is hard to do for this format. Bonus meme:

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wagner-Jauregg

Tl,Dr: He was an Austrian physician who won the noble prize in medicine in 1927 for discovering that you could treat the then incurable disease of Syphilis by contracting Malaria. The rising body temperature from Malaria would kill syphilis causing bacteria, which in turn would be treated with quinine after the syphilis had been treated.

Unfortunately, dude was also a Nazi sympathiser, keeping up with the trend of the time.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han#Insurrection_against_the_Qin_dynasty

Liu was responsible for escorting a group of penal labourers to the construction site of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum at Mount Li. During the journey, some prisoners escaped; under Qin law, allowing prisoners to escape was punishable by death. Rather than face punishment, Liu freed the remaining prisoners, some of whom willingly acknowledged him as their leader and joined him on the run from the law.

He is the definition of fun police. Also the murder, starvation and general oppression of indigenous populations.

Pictured: Emporer Wang circa 11 AD

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_IX_Hispana

The legion's disappearance is also the subject of the polarising 2010 film Centurion.

🇬🇷: we lasted 219 days before surrendering 🇫🇷: we only lasted 46 days 🇧🇪: we held for 18 days 🇩🇰: you guys lasted more then 1 day? 🇦🇹: you guys did not celebrate?

related:

Context (probably NSFL, reader discretion advised): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Suiyang

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare

source: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/117296833013985892

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51348707