In Africa it is hot, and for months on end it doesn't rain. 非洲气候炎热，接连好几个月不下雨。 In many regions very little grows. 许多地方只能生长少量作物。 These are deserts, as are the lands on either side of Egypt. 这片...
Chapter 3 The Land by the Nile 第三章 尼罗河畔的国家 Here - as I promised - History begins. 历史--我答应过你--将从这里开始。 With a when and a where. 以一个什么时候和一个哪里， It is 3,100 BC, that is, 5,100 years...
Now let's take a last look at these people dressed in skins, 现在让我们一起最后再看一看这些身上穿着动物毛皮的原始人， as they paddle their boats made of hollowed-out tree trunks towards their villages of huts on stilts, br...
In the end, perhaps 6,000 years ago, that is, 4,000 BC, they found a new and more convenient way of making tools: they discovered metals. 最后，约6000年以前，即公元前4000年，他们获得了一种新的更方便的制造工具的方法：他...
Because forests were dangerous places in those days, home to large numbers of wild animals such as wolves and bears, 因为当时的森林是非常危险的地方，住着许多野兽，如狼和熊， people in several places (and this is often the...
Rather like when we say 'Talk of the devil!' when someone we've been talking about turns up unexpectedly. 就像我们说：说曹操, 曹操到。的时候，当我们正在谈论的人意外出现。 After all, these animals were their prey, and wi...
Of course animals also make noises they can cry out when they feel pain and make warning calls when danger threatens, 当然动物在感到疼痛时也会叫喊，在有危险时发出报警呼喊声， but they don't have names for things as human b...
But people didn't yet know how to build houses. 但是人们当时还不知道如何建造房屋。 Not a pleasant thought, since at that time it was often intensely cold at certain periods far colder than today. 一想到这点令人很不愉快，因...
Yet with all of these things there must have been a first time. 可是这一切必定有过第一次出现的时候。 Someone must have made the discovery. 这必定是某个人发明的。 Isn't it an amazing thought that, one day, a prehistoric ma...
These were our ancestors who may have already been using stones as tools more than 150,000 years ago. 这是我们的祖先，他们也许在15万年前就已经开始用石头当工具了。 They were very different from the Neanderthal people who a...
