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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