城市逐渐成型。 首先，在“新月沃地”（指穿越伊拉克、叙利亚、约旦及巴基斯坦等地区的一连串肥沃的土地，状似一轮新月）上，先后涌现了巴勒斯坦古城耶利哥、乌尔、古代亚述的首都尼尼微以及巴比伦。

They did so, first, in the Fertile Crescent, the sweep of productive land that ran through Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Palestine, from which Jericho, Ur, Nineveh and Babylon (pictured above) would emerge.

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是从亚历山大大帝的帝国分割出来的，领土范围包括从色雷斯到印度边境的广大地区，其中涵盖了巴比伦尼亚、叙利亚和安纳托利亚。

Carved from Alexander the Great's empire, the Seleucid domain stretched from Thrace to the border of India and included Babylonia, Syria, and Anatolia.

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这里有来自东方中原、南方印度、西方巴比伦、埃及乃至希腊、罗马等不同地区的不同民族和人种。

There are so many different RACES and the different regions from the east Central plains, the southern India, the western Babylon and Egypt, also Greece and Rome.

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