It's based on the ancient form of Japanese poetry, which is something that I had never tried myself.

这些诗是根据日本古代诗歌形式创作的，我自己都从没试过。

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But Herodotus talks about these ancient people.

但是希罗多德谈到了这些古代人。

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But those basic structures are part of any kind of Greek city in the Ancient World.

这些基本结构,是古代希腊城市一部分。

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Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

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We know that because they also have a writing which we can read, and it speaks of it as well as the archeological remains that show destruction.

他们有文字,所以我们能了解这些内容,手稿和古代遗址一起,诠释了那场劫难

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