Andrew Schulz
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That's a long time.
That's much later.
So he's got to come up with these public projects to, well, one, you want the regular people to be happy with you.
If you're a ruler and all the citizens hate you.
And you're an outsider.
Yeah, you're going to have a revolution.
There's going to be a revolt of some kind.
And you don't want to do that.
It's not like you can't really just rule people with an iron fist forever.
They will rise up and cut your head off.
Um, so Ptolemy and Ptolemy was, was, was actually inspired by Alexander.
He actually wanted to be a good ruler.
Um, so, so he had this, you know, this genuine, um, he had this like a genuine nature about him as a ruler.
Now, certainly still a ruler did bad things, whatever all the ancient rulers did.
But, um,
So he has to create these public projects in Alexandria, which is now the new capital.
The religious capital was Luxor.
The economic capital was Cairo or Memphis.
Well, he's moved all of it now to Alexandria.
All of it is out there.