与地中海和近东地区相比，中国文明的发祥地中原地区的气候类型更加有规律可寻。

The birthplace of the Chinese civilization is the Central Plains where the climate has less variation than the Mediterranean or the Near East.

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作为西方文明之源的古希腊文明，早期曾受到古代近东地区文明的重要影响。

The Greek culture, as the resource of western civilization, was greatly influenced by the ancient Near East, especially the Egypt and the Western Asia.

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走近东方文明，展现世界未来。

Apporoach Oriental Civilization, Demonstrate the Future of the World.

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And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

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