早在乌鲁克时期，使用未经装饰的实用陶器可能是专业化大规模生产的结果。

Early in the Uruk period, the use of undecorated utilitarian pottery was probably the result of specialized mass production.

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在古罗马时期，意大利半岛上有大面积的冷杉林，是建造军舰的首选材料，但是，冷杉的稀缺性早在14世纪早期就出现了。

In ancient Roman times, the Italian peninsula had great forest of fir preferred for warships, but scarcity was apparent as early as the early fourteenth century.

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说到“婚约”或临时的订婚时期，早在中世纪就出现了，南美洲的印加人实行“试婚”。

References to “handfasting, ” or a temporary betrothal period , appear as far back as the Middle Ages, and the Incas of South America practiced “trial marriages.”

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The South as an idea, the South and its distinctiveness was very much there even in the Colonial Period.

南方作为一个概念,指南方地区以及其特点,早在殖民时期就已经存在

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Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.

斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始

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