It is a Bronze Age culture, and it is the first civilization we know in the area.

这是一个青铜时代的文明,也是我们在此区域所知道的第一个文明

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Well, Homer has his heroes using chariots and we know that chariots were used in warfare in the Bronze Age around the Mediterranean Sea.

荷马史诗》的主角们所使用的战车,我们知道在青铜时代的地中海地区,二轮战车被广泛运用于战争

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I've given you the periods at the top of the chart: early Bronze Age; middle Bronze Age from about 2100 to 1550; we date the late Bronze age from about 1550 until 1200--the introduction of iron and the beginning of the Iron Age in 1200. Prior to that, the Bronze Age, which is divided into these three periods.

我在这个表格的顶端给你们列了一些时期：,早期青铜时代；中期青铜时代，从约公元前2100年到前1550年；,晚期青铜时代，从公元前1550年到前1200年，即铁器时代前页；,然后公元前1200年开始了铁器时代，在那以前，青铜时代分为那样三个时期。

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That appears to have taken place about 3000 B.C.

青铜时代大约出现在公元前三千年

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And what we find, the first example of a Bronze Age-- and I use the word civilization now for the first time, because before the Bronze Age-- there is nothing that we would define as civilization.

我们发现的第一个文明出现在青铜时代,也是我第一次用文明这个词,因为在青铜时代之前,没有任何东西能称之为文明

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It just means a physical place, and what it appears to be is the citadel, the fortress that was the center of the towns that grew up after the Bronze Age, after the collapse of the Mycenaean world.

它只是一个物理上的地名,它看上去像城堡,要塞,是在青铜时代完结,迈锡尼世界崩塌之后,所建立的城镇的中心

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