Historians agree Armenians were massacred by the Ottoman Empire - what was to become Turkey - during World War I.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.

所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动，在罗马帝国很少见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

And of course, there are more theories about the fall of the Roman Empire than there are about the fall of the Mycenaean world.

当然,罗马帝国衰落的理论比,迈锡尼衰落的理论更多

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You really have, therefore, for in some way the first time in history, a dream of making all of his empire basically universal, a dream of a universal vision, for one world, under one kind of culture, one kind of language.

因此某种程度上说，这是历史上第一次出现，梦想建立统一的帝国，同一个世界的愿景，同一种文化，同一种语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Well, the most famous early on, King Croesus of Lydia, the richest man in the world,you've heard all about him, decides it would be a nice thing to conquer the Persian Empire, his neighbor to the east.

最著名的就是吕底亚的克洛伊索斯国王,之前已经讲过,他是世上最富有的人,他觉得征服他东方的邻居,波斯帝国,是一个不错的事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选