The Dutch economy, the equivalent would be the decline of the Venetian economic power in the Mediterranean-- and trade with the East diminishes.

而荷兰经济的崩溃,有点类似于地中海威尼斯的经济下降,他们和东方的贸易往来也锐减

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This suggests that they're not seeing each other's goods; they're not trading them.

这说明他们并没有,看到过彼此的商品,他们之间没有贸易往来

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The Dutch dominate the Baltic trade.

荷兰人控制了波罗的海的贸易往来

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The Mycenaeans had regular trade with Egypt.

迈锡尼文明与埃及有固定的贸易往来

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So you have trade with the Mediterranean and most especially the eastern Mediterranean, because that's where the older, more sophisticated, more civilized cultures were and that's where wealth was too, compared to what was out in the west.

由此你知道了他们与地中海,特别是地中海东部地区有贸易往来,因为在那里有比西方更古老,更先进,更教化的文明,同时相比西方而言,那里也是富裕之地

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