That's a pretty unique claim. And they carried with them the idea and the traditions that laid the foundation for the major religions of the western world: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

为现今西方世界奠定基础的,理念和传统，就是由他们,传承下来的：,犹太教，基督教及伊斯兰教。

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That idea is found in a very important passage known as the Shema.

这个理念被建立在一个非常重要的篇章，施玛篇的基础上。

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The institutions and the ideas therefore, that provide for freedom and improvement in the material conditions of life, cannot take root and flourish without an understanding of how they came about and what challenges they have had to surmount.

故此,这些机制和理念,为物质生活条件的自由和改善,提供了基础,但在不知道其根源且,无法预料的挑战之前,机制和理念是不可能扎根的

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