My Week In Greece! | Castle Super Beast 276 Clip 

Pat looking like my sleep paralysis demon right off the bat.

Pat: so woolie how was your trip to Greece Woolie with a red tattoo going over the left side of his face and a jetpack: AREEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!

14:54 : There's plenty of really old stuff in the New World, it's just Precolumbian history and archeology with Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations like the Aztec and Inca, or Moundbuilder cultures in North America, and other Indigenous cultures etc aren't taught about in schools much or used as much in pop culture. Woolie brought up how Some Mycenean and Minoan ruins were as old to Jesus, as Jesus is to us, but you have the same dynamic in Mesoamerica where the Aztec were doing excavations at older sites like Teotihuacan and bringing back artifacts and renovating shrines at ruins there. In one case, the Aztec found an Olmec mask (which would have been 2000-2500+ years old TO THE AZTEC!) which the reburied in Tenochtitlan; and in another a excavated a Teotihuacano mask, refurbished and added new gemstone eyes to, and then later that mask was brought to Europe and fell into the hands of the Medici family in Italy (yes, those Medicis) who drilled a hole into it so it could be mounted to a wall. In fact, here's a summary of Mesoamerican history, from the first complex sites all the way to Spanish contact. For some context, the "Preclassic" or "Formative" period runs from 2000BC-100AD, and is when cities, writing, complex governments, etc originated; the "Classic" period goes from 100-900AD, and is when those things had become widespread; and the "Postclassic" period goes from 900AD to 1519, arguably 1697 with the fall of the last Maya city-state (brain bender: there were unconquered Maya city-states around when the Salem Witch Trials happened!), with the Postclassic being defined by a fall of some major Classic period political centers and a shift to new political/social models. (Note that not all sources define periods the same way!) ---- The Preclassic period: 1400 BC, around what's now southern Veracruz, the Olmec site of San Lorezno becomes the region's first urban center in 1400 BC, and becomes abandoned by 900 BC, where the (probably) more properly urban and socially complex city of La Venta rises to prominence, which is also when our sole example of Olmec writing dates back to. In the following centuries, urban, state societies continue to pop up, notable ones being the early Maya cities like Aguada Fenix, Nakbe, El Mirador and Kaminaljuyu; the Zapotec city of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, and the Epi-Olmec culture developing from the Olmec. All 3 develop writing with many other towns and some cities in those and other cultures increasingly popping up over time. In Western Mexico, during the Olmec Period, the Capacha are a culture that developed independently from them, with far reaching pottery and likely trade, but we don't know much about them (West Mexico is understudied) The Early Classic Period By around 100-200AD, urban cities with state governments and probably writing (for the elite) had become widespread in Mesoamerica, marking the transition to the Classic Period. The Maya will rise to their height in the Late Classic, with many dozens of large, notable city-states & kingdoms, and thousands of smaller towns all over the Yucatan. Down in Oaxcaca, The Zapotec too have formed many city-states, with Monte Alban still the most powerful. In Central Mexico, in the Valley of Mexico (in what's now Mexico City) a volcanic eruption displaces many locales, including the city of Cuicuilco, the most powerful city in the area. These displaced people immigrate into the city of Teotihuacan, which grows into a huge influential political and religious center, and with a population of around 100,000, and eclipsing Rome in physical area with a giant planned grid, complex drainage systems and housing even their commoners in lavish palace complexes; and is one of the largest cities in the world at the time (Arguably as was El Mirador and eventually Tikal, Calakmul, etc too). Teotihuacan's influence reaches far and establishes many architectural, artistic, and religious trends, such as the Talud-tablero architectural style for pyramids; perhaps even conquering and installing rulers in Maya cities 1000 kilometers away. In Western Mexico, around the end of the Preclassic and start of the Classic, the Teuchitlan tradition, possibly the first of Western Mexico's complex societies, emerges, though how stratified they were is debated. The Late Classic Period In the latter half of the classic period, you see the rise of El Tajin as a notable influential center among the cities around the Gulf Coast in what's now central Veracruz (the cities/culture there now referred to as the "Classic Veracruz") and Cholula (which has already been around as a smaller site) as a notable city in Central Mexico; Monte Alban begins to fall in esteem, with the Zapotec city of Mitla becoming the most prominent city in Oaxaca instead. Teotihuacan declines as well, and in the Central-Southern Maya lowlands, the cities of Tikal and Calakmul become two super-power city-states among the Maya, centralizing Maya geopolitics around them (though some recent research is perhaps revaluating Calakmul's influence) Eventually Tikal and it's allies are able to put down Calakmul, and shortly thereafter, you have the Classic Maya collapse, where due to perhaps from a combination of political instability following those wars, climate issues, and other factors, many of the large powerful Central and Southern Maya sites decline between 700 and 800 AD, with some other key centers also declining, Throughout the Late Classic and Early-Postclassic, West Mexico develops many different city-states with increasing influence from the rest of Mesoamerica. The Early Post-Classic Period The Classic Maya Collapse and the decline of Monte Alban and Teotihuacan, etc marks the transition to the Postclassic period. However, many other cities still thrive and survive, such as El Tajin and Cholula, as do many Maya city-states in some areas, such as in the north like Chichen Itza and Uxmal. The Mixtec in the Oaxaca and Guerrero regions begin to overtake the Zapotec in prominence (Perhaps more just in what's been studied: the Mixtec had always been around), with 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw conquering significant swathes of Mixtec, Zapotec, and Chatino civilization. 8-deer had the blessings and support of the Toltec in Central Mexico (namely the Lord of Cholula), whom Aztec sources describe as a massively influential and far reaching power in the region, maybe operating out of the city of Tula. But most of our accounts of Toltec history and figures such as Ce Acatl Topiltzin are heavily mythologized (Tula certainly did not dominate all of Central Mexico and conquer all the way to the Yucatan). As a result, it's hard to separate history from myth or later Aztec and Spanish attempts to twist accounts to justify their rule. Allegedly around 1100 AD, the Toltecs fall, and 8-deer is overthrown and killed in an ironic twist of fate where the one boy he let live in his rival dynasties grows up to overthrow him, though Tututepec, a city he founded (Maybe), would grow into a major state of it's own. The Late Post-Classic Period In the 1200's, The Maya city of Mayapan comes closest to forming a unified Maya state, forming a political alliance of many of the city-states in the northern and central Yucatan Peninsula. Due to droughts in Northern Mexico, you begin to see some groups of Chichimeca (nomadic tribes), namely Nahuatl speakers, move further south into Central and Southern Mexico, and transition into urban societies (or these are simply new migrations, with perhaps Nahuatl already somewhat present); especially in the Valley of Mexico and the surrounding areas, led by the legendary King Xototl, displacing local Otomi cities/towns. In particular, the city of Azcapotzalco, which claims heredity from Xolotl, eventually dominates the valley. During the same time as all this in Western Mexico, other Northern migrants moved down into the Lake Pátzcuaro region, and takes over and becomes the ruling class of Purepecha city of of Pátzcuaro, which conquers many other cities in the area. In the 1420's, following the death of king Tezozomoc of Azcapotzalco, one of his two heirs assassinates the other, as well as likely Chimalpopoca, king of Tenochtitlan, one of Azcapotzalco's subject cities; as he was born from one of Tezozomoc's daughters given as a political marriage and was a succession threat. War breaks out, and Tenochtitlan, along with the city-states of Texcoco, and Tlacopan join forces and overthrow them, forming the Aztec triple alliance. Over the next 100 years, they rapidly expand and conquer almost all of Central and Southern Mexico, including Otomi cities/towns in Central Mexico, Totonac and Huastec ones along the Gulf Coast (who now or may have always inhabited that area), Mixtec, Zapotec, and Tlapanec ones in Oaxaca and Guerrero, and many others. Back to Western Mexico, in the 1450's, a man named Tzitzipandáquare launches a coup, moves power in the alliance Pátzcuaro dominated to it's junior city of Tzintzuntzan, which rapidly expands to form the Purepecha/Tarascan empire, who would be the Aztec empire's only real competition and repel numerous invasions from them, preventing their expansion to city-states and kingdoms further West such as Colima and Jalisco. With the Aztec and Purepecha unable to make each other budge, the Aztec, as the Spanish arrive, had expanded into some Maya towns in Chiapas, and were besieging Tlaxcala, a Nahua city ruled via a republic in an adjacent valley (alongside Cholula, Huextozinco, and some other cities/towns... note Tlaxcala is NOT an Aztec subject, but an enemy state they are at war with!) who had been able to escape conquest due to their defensible position (other notable unconquered enclaves being the Mixtec kingdom of Tututepec, the Tlapenec kingdom of Yopitzinco, and the Otomi kingdom of Metztitlan.) This is the state of things when the Spanish arrive.

Finally, Castle Super Greece

55:37 ever since getting randomly grounded as a child, I’ve kinda just unintentionally entertained myself with noise in my head until I’m done an unpleasant task, so I feel like I’d just sit there for an hour until they said “okay you’re not giving us anything useful, please leave.”

Surprised Woolie didn't try to get "Spagos" trending while he was there.

I imagine pats freezing problem is related to one of the recording softwares they use clashing with discord, considering it doesn't happens with other calls they make

50:50 Jesus Christ, Pat said that with a hard R. Just say "Quebecas"

Greece is not very humid. That's why there aren't that many mosquitoes.

I thought Pat's screen freezing was a bit

Spagonia confirmed

6:20 Of course Woolie would immediately realize it's a PIE

Did you take Stavros halkias with you ?

Did Woolie finally eat some spanakopitas?

People in chat, raise your hand if your from a nation where mountains and nature are tourist magnets and during the whole tourist season you have to read about them having to be rescued or straight up dying because the multilanguage warning signs and barriers clearly didnt aply to them.

I'm glad you enjoyed your visit.

Woolie, leaving the country so he can summon a hurricane to attack the home lands and take them back for himself

As a member of the Greek Canadian mosquito community i would personally endorse drinking uso with a baby on your lap until you fall asleep next to one of our fine you tube architecture scammer swamp mosquito breading hole's, fun times for all the family

As a Greek American I can confirm Mastiha is the S tier Greek liquor.

Really wish I could have been on gamers lounge on Sunday but I appreciate you visited our little fgc scene here in Greece.

Woollies tapped lmao. 🤣

You know, they say of the acropolis where the parthenon is...

glad you had a good time woolz

OPA!

I LOVE Ouzo. Definitely not for everyone but if you like it, there's not much like it. Sounds like you had a great time!

15:00 Technically it's less like the "new world" is new in the sense of "there was nothing in the all of the americas before the 1800s and things only started being built after that" and more like it's new in the sense of "it DID have a lot of stuff, it was just completely obliterated by european colonisers to the point there is pretty much nothing indigenous to pre-european-invaded america (and its many many different people and cultures) left standing (or alive, for the matter). details, details

I'm so bummed I didn't get to meet you woolie

I love Woolies travel stories so much!!

@woolie since you're videogame journalists, you should try a satlink van :p

all i know about mykanos is that fleet foxes song

time for me to go to berlin

8:50

I‘m drinking Ouzo, what about you?

Pretty sure mykonos is the gay party destination

So you're telling me Greeks are just like Brazilians. And Brazilians are just like Americans... Oh boy... (I'm Brazilian btw)

@52:50 This is the second video where Pat blatantly admits he doesn't understand the concept of empathy. With the same description he gave last time, no less. Woolie too in this case, but he's usually better on this front. People feel sad when others die because most people believe human life has value. That belief is foundational to a functioning and healthy society. Whether that life was ended by stupidity, outside forces (murder, animal attacks, accidents, etc.), internal issues (sickness, organ malfunctions, cancer, etc.), or something else entirely, that's still an understandably sad thing to most people who have basic empathy. A part of being human is being a dynamic and multi-faceted person. Even if you (general "you", not specifically Pat or Woolie) acknowledge something as stupid, that doesn't somehow negate the sadness of the outcome. You (again, general) just choose not to engage with that emotion, likely because the perceived (or actual) stupidity is enough for you to dehumanize a complete stranger and laugh at or disregard their death. That's fucked up, and Pat will hopefully grow out of that for the sake of raising his son.

Dudes with blues eyes be like:

53:00 would the....parents have done the same thing because they feel bad? Or is this just pat being pat? Like I know we have fun here, but actual normal people would feel bad regardless of the...obvious idiocy? Or was this some bit I’m just not in the mood to get right now? I hope it was that, even I laugh along with the social Darwinism shit, but that was just....wildly untrue? Oh well, I expect to be handwaved regardless.

Like.

I’m glad they were very hospitable to you, but LegacyOfKaiser is a known transphobe and content thief unfortunately. Their channel’s big claim to fame is the initial fanning of drama when Bridget first came to Strive and people insisted she was still a boy, as well as continuing to fan that argument to this day.