《美国学生人类历史》叙述西方文明是如何从原始人类发源，并进一步讲述书写文字、艺术、建筑以及主要的信仰，直至近代民族国家的兴起等。本书能帮助英语学习爱好者在提高英语水平的同事，了解人类历史知识，增强英语文化素养。
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The sun was originally a plain circle (Here is a picture of a plain circle)and became(a picture with four trangiles,and the third with certain square). 太阳最初是一个平面的圆圈，后来变为。 If we were using the Sumerian script today...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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。...
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...
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...
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...
