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Luke Caverns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Come out, shake my hand, take a pic, and come enjoy some stand-up comedy.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

So it's also probably British archaeology plus Indiana Jones.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Yes.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

yeah absolutely I was talking to a historian that says he doesn't think that the library of Alexandria which held so much of the ancient world so much of the ancient world he was saying that perhaps it never burned down

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

And that it actually just eroded from the elements, intellectual decay, invasion, you know.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

That there's a part of it that burned down, but perhaps the burning was more of a metaphorical burning.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Not to mention, wasn't the entire Greek world very sort of hierarchical?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

And it was all secession based off of dynasty?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

And from what I understand, Ptolemy was seen as like... What do you mean by that, Mark?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

He was just like...

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

your your dad was the king so now you're the king then your son will be king right and it's just all passed through bloodline and ptolemy was one of the first people that was very meritocratic where like alexander loved him was like you're a beast and even though you come from like a fine sort of military family i'm going to elevate you to this high political status purely based off your merit which was never done yeah i mean is that roughly the story um greece is very diverse like

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

But we diverted you.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

And this guy went from like a lowly dude to now being...

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Absolutely.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Yep.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Who do you got?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

I guessed it last year.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Let the record show.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

You did not guess shit.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

No, you didn't.