Andrew Schulz

So there's this story of this flood that's sitting in the back of his mind.

But even more so than that, the Greeks definitely would have remembered a much, much, much, much more dramatic cataclysmic event in

that happened further back in time for them.

And it was the first civilization of ancient Greece.

So right here in the mainland and across these islands, this is classical ancient Greece.

But really it started here on this little island called Crete.

And there was a civilization there called the Minoans.

We don't know much about the Minoans.

They existed before the time of the Trojan War, long before that.

But on this island right here, this island is called the Island of 100 Cities.

And there's all these big, super rich, like, palisade cities that dot the entire island.

And the cities will be, like, three to four stories tall, these huge labyrinthian palaces.

It's the kind of architecture that you did not see in ancient Egypt.

You didn't see it anywhere.

It's the kind of public architecture that was possibly never recreated until Roman public architecture, like the Roman forums, you know, these big multi-level buildings for people to be walking around in.

They had marble private toilets up on their fourth floors.

They had indoor plumbing.

They had aqueducts that ran throughout the cities and brought fresh water into the cities.

I mean, the most sophisticated...

ancient culture of the Bronze Age, by far, if one of those, if an average person living on Crete traveled to Egypt, he'd be walking around Egypt thinking this place was a fucking dump.