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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
