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。

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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

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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

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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

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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

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While man of the prehistoric age had been obliged to spend sixteen hours out of every twenty-four gathering food for himself and the members of his tribe, 史前人类通常要1天劳动16个小时,为自己的家人和部落成员寻找食物。 t

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He marched at the head of not less than four different victory-parades, having won four different campaigns. 在其辉煌的一生中,恺撒赢得了四次重大战争,四次举行凯旋入城仪式,每次都威风八面地走在游行队伍的最

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Chapter 24 第二十四章 The roman empire 罗马帝国的故事 How the republic of Rome after centuries of unrest and revolution become an empire 罗马共和国历经数世纪的动乱和革命,终于变成了罗马帝国 When the Roman armies

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All the little citystates once more began to quarrel with each other as they had done in the good old days. 所有的希腊城邦再度陷人无休止的相互争吵中,一如它们在光荣的旧时代的所为。 The Romans, who had little unders

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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

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Then something very interesting occurred. If Schliemann had found a few polished stone hammers and perhaps a few pieces of crude pottery, no one would have been surprised. Instead of discovering such objects, which people had generally associated wit

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The same simplicity which prevailed in the dining room also dominated their choice of clothes. They liked to be clean and well groomed, to have their hair and beards neatly cut, to feel their bodies strong with the exercise and the swimming of the gy

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But the pass had been lost and the greater part of Greece fell into the hands of the Persians. They marched upon Athens, threw the garrison from the rocks of the Acropolis and burned the city. The people fled to the Island of Salamis. All seemed lost

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When you look at the map you will see how by this time civilisation has described a semi-circle. It begins in Egypt, and by way of Mesopotamia and the Aegean Islands it moves westward until it reaches the European continent. The first four thousand y

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Chapter 22 第二十二章 Rome and Carthage 罗马和迦太基 The Semitic colony of Carthage on the northern coast of Africa and the indo-European city of Rome on the west coast of Italy fought each other for the possession of the Western Mediterra

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As a matter of custom and practical advantage the senators were elected from the nobility. But their power had been strictly defined. 遵照习俗并出于现实的考虑,元老们通常选自贵族阶层,可他们的权力同时也受到极其严格

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For a moment, the luck seemed to turn. Hasdrubal, his brother, had defeated the Roman armies in Spain. 有段时间,局势似乎有好转的希望。他的兄弟哈士多路巴在西班牙击败了罗马军队, He had crossed the Alps to come to

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Her navy had been sunk. She had been forbidden to make war without Roman permission. 迦太基的全部军舰被沉入海底,从此失去了海军;不经罗马人的许可它没有发动战争的权力; She had been condemned to pay the Romans

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Chapter 23 第23章 The rise of 罗马帝国的兴起 Rome How Rome happened 罗马帝国是如何形成的 The Roman Empire was an accident. No one planned it. 罗马帝国的产生纯属偶然。没有人策划它, It happened.No famous general o

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In the year 203 B.C. Scipio had crossed the African Sea and had carried the war into Africa. 公元前203年,西皮奥率军渡过阿非利加海,将战火烧到非洲。 Carthage had called Hannibal back. Badly supported by his mercenaries, Hann

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