撒哈拉大沙漠阻断了人们与北方的联系，太多个世纪以来都是如此，以致非洲根本无法接触到伟大的地中海文明。

The Sahara hindered human contact with the north for too many centuries, so that Africa was little exposed to the great Mediterranean civilizations.

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你可以在一些发掘的工具及其他物品，特别是某种陶器上，发现迈锡尼文明的影子遍布地中海区域。

You find Mycenaean elements on some excavated tools, other things, pottery particularly of a certain kind, all over the Mediterranean Sea.

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在地中海区域的早期文明中，拱形结构主要被运用在地下排水管上，但在地上建筑中首先发展并广泛使用拱门的是罗马人。

The arch was used by the early cultures of the Mediterranean area chiefly for underground drains, but it was the Romans who first developed and used the arch extensively in aboveground structures.

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This was a civilization that was not shut in on itself, but was in touch with the entire Mediterranean region.

迈锡尼文明不是一个封闭的文明,它与整个地中海地区都有着联系

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You find Mycenaean elements, tools, other things, pottery particularly of a certain kind, all over the Mediterranean Sea.

你可以在一些发掘的工具及其他物品,特别是某种陶器上,发现迈锡尼文明的影子遍布地中海区域

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Roughly speaking, about 1200 B.C., we hear of general attacks that are going on around the Mediterranean against the various civilizations of which we know.

大致说来,大概在公元前一千二百年,爆发了以地中海周围,我们所知的各种文明为攻击对象的,全面战争

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