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The Migration of Manuscripts and Knowledge From Alexandria to Constantinople
Douglas Rushkoff: In the Hellenistic era in which, which Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, that was Greek. And then Alexandria got conquered again by Christian Greeks, which would have been Byzantine or from from Byzantium. He says you do begin to see a migration of techniques, manuscripts, cultural wisdom becoming absorbed into the Byzantine Empire.rushkoff: There's this just interesting migration that you see exactly from Alexandria to this new world power.