Just imagine if the great inventors or explorers of the past had feared the unknown. Then entire population of the world would still reside in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.

想象一下过去的那些伟大的发明家和先驱者都惧怕未知，那么我们的整个人类社会恐怕至今还在底格里斯河和幼发拉底河流域停留着呢。

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Babylonia: an ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates river valley. It flourished under hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar ii but declined after562b. c. and fell to the persians in539.

巴比伦王国：美索不达米亚的一个古代帝国，幼发拉底河流域。繁荣于汉穆拉比和尼布甲尼撒二世统治之时，但于公元前562年后衰落并于539年落于波斯人手中。

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An ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley.

巴比伦王国美索不达米亚的一个古代帝国，幼发拉底河流域。

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We have hard evidence of that in Egypt, in Asia Minor, and in the Tigris Euphrates Valley.

而在埃及,小亚细亚,和两河流域却找不到类似的证据

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The real sort of typical home of the kinds of things were talking about is Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, the Tigress, Euphrates Valley, which spread out beyond Iraq and went up into Syria and neighboring places.

我们所讨论的这些旧文明中的典型大约,起源于美索不达米亚,即现在的伊拉克,在底格里斯河,幼发拉底河流域,其范围超过了伊拉克,还包括叙利亚以及邻近地区

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It may deprive the militants of their biggest safe haven, but many more towns in the Euphrates valley are plainly out of the central government's control and may also shelter the fighters.

ECONOMIST: Iraq

Just as fighting has dwindled in a ravaged zone around the northern town of Idlib near the Turkish frontier, it has popped up in the hitherto quiescent town of Raqqa in the centre of the country, and all along the Euphrates valley to the southeast.

ECONOMIST: Syria��s uprising

That in area (a) the Baghdad railway shall not be extended southwards beyond Mosul, and in area (b) northwards beyond Samarra, until a railway connecting Baghdad and Aleppo via the Euphrates valley has been completed, and then only with the concurrence of the two governments.

BBC: Map detailing the Sykes-Picot agreement