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Jiang uses the story of the Library of Alexandria taking Athenian manuscripts and forfeiting a huge silver deposit to show how Ptolemaic Egypt tried to make Alexandria the intellectual capital of the Greek world.
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"And the Ptolemy spent a lot of money on the library of Alexandria. Mainly by going around and collecting original manuscripts. All right? So..."
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"Okay? So we'll take the deposit, 15 talents, and we'll give you the manuscripts. The Egyptians took the manuscripts. Placed it in the library..."
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"was the cultural capital of the world and Egypt helped to help give science and math to Greece okay now the Greeks are like..."
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"...is they burn down the capital, Moscow. Okay? Moscow is their cultural capital. It is the heart and soul of the Russian Empire. And..."
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"...on a massive spending spree in order to make Florence the cultural capital of Europe. Okay? So they will... First of all, fund these..."
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