Rome may have fallen hundreds of years ago, but much of the civilization the Romans built still dots the landscape today.

尽管罗马城在几百年前就已经消亡了，但罗马文明至今依然在这片土地上繁衍着。

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A growing number of people are coming to the conclusion that the civilization in the West is more materially rich but, paradoxically, less and less happy.

越来越多的人开始发现西方文明更多的是物质的丰富，相反，人却变得越来越不快乐。

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Yet, we all know that supply of provisions and clothing is only one aspect of life; man's demand on life is many-sided. Higher the civilization, higher is man's psychological aspiration.

然而，我们知道，衣食无忧仅仅是生活的一个方面，人们对生活的要求是多侧面的，文明程度越高，人们的心理需求就越高。

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Traditional healers spoke the language at least as early as the fifteenth century during the height of the Inca civilization.

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The civilization of the West, however, was not the result of some inevitable process through which other cultures will automatically pass.

然而,西方文明的发展之路,并非经历了其他文明必经之途中,一些不可避免的发展过程

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When we use the word Minoan we mean the civilization whose home is Crete.

当我们用"米诺斯"这个词语时,就是指出自于克里特的文明

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We developed the civilization that we have now over the past 7000 years.

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And a call for gold can be surprising only to those unfamiliar with the glory of the civilization that Dr. Mohamad reflects.

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"Phoenicians started the civilization, they are the ones who invented the alphabet, I would be very proud to be a Phoenician, " he adds.

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