And another twenty years had to go by until a British officer, Henry Rawlinson, who found the famous inscription of Behistun, gave us a workable key to the nail-writing of western Asia. 又过了20年,英国官员罗林森发现了著名的贝希通岩

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

Chapter 08 第八章 The Sumerians 苏美尔人 The Sumerian Nall Writers, Whose Clay Tablets Tell us the story of Assyria and Babylonia The Great Semitic Melting Pot 苏美尔人用刻在泥版上的楔形文字给我们讲述了闪米特人的大熔炉

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

Chapter 07 第一章 Mesopotamia 美索不达米亚 Mesopotamia-The Second Center of Eastern Civilisation 美索不达米亚--东方文明的第二个中心 I am going to take you to the top of the highest pyramid and I am going to ask that you imagi

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

It regained a semblance of independence when one of Alexander's generals set himself up as king of a new Egyptian state 亚历山太死后,他的一位将军自立为新埃及之王,建都亚历山大城, and founded the dynasty of the Ptolemie

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

They were highly unpopular and great hate was also felt for the Hebrews who came to the land of Goshen to find a shelter after their long wandering through the desert 希克索斯人横征暴敛,极不受欢迎。同样不受欢迎的还有希伯来人

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

Chapter 06 第六章 The Story of Egypt 埃及的故事 The rise and fall of Egypt 埃及的盛衰 The river Nile was a kind friend but occasionally it was a hard taskmaster. 尼罗河是人类的好友,可有时候,它又像一位严厉的监工。

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

Originally these graves had been dug into the rocks of the western mountains 最初,这些坟墓是建在西部山脉的岩石里面, but as the Egyptians moved northward they were obliged to build their cemeteries in the desert. 随着埃及人向

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

They understood that it is not good for man to think only of his immediate advantage in this world and they drew his attention to the days of the future 他们懂得,人不能只考虑眼前的利益,这是大有害处的。他们将人们关注的

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史