this post was submitted on 11 May 2026

378 points (100.0% liked)

History Memes

historymemes@piefed.social

2,963 readers

3,606 active

20 users here now

A place to share history memes!

Rules:

No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.
No fascism (including tankies/red fash), atrocity denial or apologia, etc.
Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.
Follow all Piefed.social rules.
History referenced must be 20+ years old.
Avoid posting AI-generated content whenever possible.

Banner courtesy of @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world

OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:

founded 1 year ago

moderators

PugJesus@piefed.social

Deceptichum@quokk.au

PugJesus@lemmy.world

“They thought the earth was flat” (thelemmy.club)

submitted 4 months ago by Grumpus_Maximus to c/historymemes@piefed.social

32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Klear@quokk.au 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Also Columbus didn't set out to prove the earth is a sphere but to prove it is much smaller than thought. He was wrong, the Americas saved his ass.

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

I thought it was just that he thought it was smaller than it is and he wanted to find another route to India by going west instead of east. Not that he wanted to prove that the earth is smaller.

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] Klear@quokk.au 9 points 4 months ago

Eh, that's pretty much the same thing

parent