《美国学生人类历史》叙述西方文明是如何从原始人类发源，并进一步讲述书写文字、艺术、建筑以及主要的信仰，直至近代民族国家的兴起等。本书能帮助英语学习爱好者在提高英语水平的同事，了解人类历史知识，增强英语文化素养。
Chapter 15 第十五章 Greek self-government 古希腊的自治制度 The Greeks were the first people to try the difficult experiment of self-government 古希腊人是历史上最早进行自治实验的民族 IN the beginning, all the Greeks had...
They performed these miracles in little villages that covered less ground than four or five modern city blocks. 令人惊叹的是，他们创造了奇迹的场所，尽管是些相当于现代城市四、五个街区大小的小村庄。 And look, w...
It was the small house within the high city-walls where his wife and children lived in safety. It was a complete world which covered no more than four or five acres of rocky land. Don't you see how these surroundings must have influenced a man in eve...
That is all very well, you will say, and no doubt it is a great virtue to care so much for moderation and perfection, but why should the Greeks have been the only people to develop this quality in olden times? For an answer I shall point to the way i...
Chapter 14 第十四章 The Greek cities 古希腊城邦 The Greek cities that were really states. 古希腊的城市其实是独立的国家 We modern people love the sound of the word big. We pride ourselves upon the fact that we belong to the bigg...
But here and there, on the tops of high rocks, they saw the castles of the Aegeans and those they did not attack for they feared the metal swords and the spears of the Aegean soldiers and knew that they could not hope to defeat them with their clumsy...
Chapter 13 第十三章 The Greeks 希腊人 Meanwhile the Indo-European tribe of the Hellenes was taking possession of Greece 印欧语系的赫愣人占据了希腊半岛 THE Pyramids were a thousand years old and were beginning to show the first s...
The cellars underneath this palace, where the wine and the grain and the olive-oil were stored, had been so vast and had so greatly impressed the first Greek visitors, that they had given rise to the story of the labyrinth, the name which we give to...
A very careful study of these many relics has done away with some of the romantic features of the story. The makers of these early works of art and the builders of these strong fortresses were no sorcerers, but simple sailors and traders. They had li...
Then something very interesting occurred. If Schliemann had found a few polished stone hammers and perhaps a few pieces of crude pottery, no one would have been surprised. Instead of discovering such objects, which people had generally associated wit...
Chapter 12 第十二章 The Aegean sea 爱琴海 The people of the Aegean Sea Carried the Civilisation of old Asia into the wilderness of Europe 爱琴海的人民将亚洲的古老文明带到了蛮荒的欧洲 When Heinrich Schliemann was a little...
Others had preferred to stay among the hills of western Asia and there they had founded the half-independent communities of the Medes and the Persians, two peoples whose names we have copied from the old Greek history-books. In the seventh century be...
Chapter 11 第十一章 The Indo-Europeans 印欧人 The Indo-Europeans Persians conquer The Semitic and the Egyptian world 印欧语族的波斯人征服了闪米特人与埃及人 The world of Egypt and Babylon and Assyria and Phoenicia had existed...
Nevertheless they have rendered all coming generations one service of the greatest possible value. They gave us our alphabet. 不过，他们给后人留下了一笔极有价值的遗产-一他们创造了字母。 The Phoenicians had been familiar w...
Chapter 10 第十章 The Phoenicians 腓尼基人 The Phoenicians who gave us our alphabet 腓尼基人为我们创造了字母 The Phoenicians, who were the neighbours of the Jews, were a Semitic tribe which at a very early age had settled along the...
