美国学生人类历史第38期:爱琴海(1)

Chapter 12 第十二章 The Aegean sea 爱琴海 The people of the Aegean Sea Carried the Civilisation of old Asia into the wilderness of Europe 爱琴海的人民将亚洲的古老文明带到了蛮荒的欧洲 When Heinrich Schliemann was a little

美国学生人类历史第37期:印欧人(2)

Others had preferred to stay among the hills of western Asia and there they had founded the half-independent communities of the Medes and the Persians, two peoples whose names we have copied from the old Greek history-books. In the seventh century be

美国学生人类历史第36期:印欧人(1)

Chapter 11 第十一章 The Indo-Europeans 印欧人 The Indo-Europeans Persians conquer The Semitic and the Egyptian world 印欧语族的波斯人征服了闪米特人与埃及人 The world of Egypt and Babylon and Assyria and Phoenicia had existed

美国学生人类历史第35期:腓尼基人(2)

Nevertheless they have rendered all coming generations one service of the greatest possible value. They gave us our alphabet. 不过，他们给后人留下了一笔极有价值的遗产-一他们创造了字母。 The Phoenicians had been familiar w

美国学生人类历史第34期:腓尼基人(1)

Chapter 10 第十章 The Phoenicians 腓尼基人 The Phoenicians who gave us our alphabet 腓尼基人为我们创造了字母 The Phoenicians, who were the neighbours of the Jews, were a Semitic tribe which at a very early age had settled along the

美国学生人类历史第45期:古希腊城邦(2)

That is all very well, you will say, and no doubt it is a great virtue to care so much for moderation and perfection, but why should the Greeks have been the only people to develop this quality in olden times? For an answer I shall point to the way i

美国学生人类历史第30期:苏美尔人(5)

They in turn were vanquished by the followers of the great desert God, Ashur, who called themselves Assyrians 没过多久，他们被同样信仰沙漠大神阿舒尔的亚述人所征服。亚述人以首都尼尼微为中心， and who made the ci

美国学生人类历史第31期:摩西(1)

Chapter 9 第九章 Moses 摩西 The story of Moses, the leader of the Jewish people 犹太民族的领袖摩西的故事 Some time during the twentieth century before our era, a small and unimportant tribe of Semitic shepherds had left its old home,

美国学生人类历史第32期:摩西(2)

After many years of suffering they were saved from their miserable fate by a young Jew, called Moses, who for a long time had dwelt in the desert and there had learned to appreciate the simple virtues of his earliest ancestors, who had kept away from

美国学生人类历史第33期:摩西(3)

And from that moment, Jehovah was recognised by all the Jews as the Highest Master of their Fate, the only True God, who had taught them how to live holy lives when he bade them to follow the wise lessons of his Ten Commandments. 从这时起，耶和华

美国学生人类历史第16期:象形字(4)

Suppose that you were Champollion, and that you were examining a stack of papyrus sheets, all covered with hieroglyphics. 设想你就是商博良，你正在检视着一叠写满了古埃及象形文字的纸莎草纸。 Suddenly you came across a p

美国学生人类历史第15期:象形文字(3)

But this particular slab of black basalt was different from anything that had ever been discovered. 与此前发现的别的物件不同的是，这块特别的黑玄武岩石板 It carried three inscriptions. One of these was in Greek. The Greek lan

美国学生人类历史第14期:象形字(2)

Without written documents we would be like cats and dogs, who can only teach their kittens and their puppies a few simple things 如果没有文字记录的文献，人类便会像猫狗一样。猫狗只能教下一代一些简单的东西， and wh

美国学生人类历史第13期:象形文字(1)

Chapter 4 第四章 Hieroglyphics 象形文字 These earliest ancestors of ours who lived in the great European wilderness were rapidly learning many new things. 我们这些最早的祖先生活在欧洲的荒野上，他们迅速学习着许多新事

美国学生人类历史第11期:史前人类(2)

When they tried to stay more than a few days there was a terrible battle with claw-like hands and feet and whole families were killed. 当过了几天他们还赖着不走，于是一场可怕的战斗发生了。人们相互撕咬，发疯般地肉搏

美国学生人类历史第10期:史前人类(1)

Chapter 3 第三章 Prehistoric man 史前人类 Prehistoric man begins to make things for himself. 史前人类开始为自己制造工具 Early man did not know what time meant. 早期的人类不懂得时间的含义， He kept no records of birth

美国学生人类历史第12期:史前人类(3)

Next came the housing problem. 接下来是解决住房的问题。 This was simple. Many animals were in the habit of sleeping in dark caves. 这很简单。许多动物都有睡黑乎乎的山洞的习性。 Man now followed their example, drove th

美国学生人类历史第9期:我们最早的祖先(3)

In due time he learned that he could use this guttural noise to warn his fellow beings whenever danger threatened and he gave certain little shrieks which came to mean there is a tiger! or here come five elephants. 日子长了，他突然意识到，可

美国学生人类历史第17期:象形字(5)

After several hundred years, the Egyptians lost sight of both these meanings and the picture. 经过了几百年，古埃及人把这两种意义都扔掉了， Here is a picture of a litttle man with a saw, came to stand for a single letter, the let

美国学生人类历史第29期:苏美尔人(4)

Their towers however still stand amidst the ruins of Mesopotamia. 只有他们建造的高塔依然屹立在美索不达米亚的废墟之中。 The Jews saw them when they went into exile in the land of Babylon 犹太人在流浪途中经过巴比伦时