Well, Miletus was on the main routes to all of the places where advanced knowledge could be found, Mesopotamia, Egypt.

米利都地处所有先进知识传播的主干道,通向美索不达米亚和埃及

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The reason for that was that in the east and in south, the Greeks lived among people who were more civilized than they, who were more advanced.

究其原因,在东方和南方,希腊人生活在比他们更文明,更先进的民族中间

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