Andrew Schulz

Oh, okay.

Yeah, so there's a lot of political moves that you've got to pull here.

Now, this is the thing that makes Alexandria so amazing.

Ptolemy and his son and his grandson, those are known as the great Ptolemies.

All the ones after that, it becomes Game of Thrones.

Like it's a vicious, really a show should be made about it.

So the first three Ptolemies, they have to convince the Egyptians

that they are worthy of being Pharaoh, right?

as far as the way that their politics go, in Athens, the idea of people governing themselves was born in, I don't know, it was when they got the tyrants out.

I think it was in the 600s BC or the 500s BC.

So they had kings and then they had tyrants, which is like a political king, but not the same thing.

And then they formed the Athenian democracy.

And then some other places follow suit with this idea of democracy and people ruling over themselves.

But the Macedonians held on to this traditional sort of medieval, you know, I guess this is pre-medieval, right?

But, you know, they sort of held on to this royal bloodline succession.

And then Sparta...

had kings, even though it's different, they would have like two kings.

So the Greek world is like super divided.

This is why there was never really much of a Greek empire because the Greeks could never like fully come together.

Like culture's permeating across.