But I do not believe that, objectives of crusaders were purely religious. I understand that , there were many many factors that pushed this campaign into the near east.

不过我不认为，十字军的目的是,完全宗教的，我觉得，有很多因素在背后推动,这个运动走向东方。

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The conflict was given the features of religious conflict, just like the crusades were given the name of symbol of Christianity and came to the near East with these values.

这个冲突有宗教冲突的特点，就像十字军东征被称作是,基督标志,他们带着这些价值观来到东方。

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The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.

史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。

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This is not the way it was in the ancient Near East.

这并不像古代近东

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They participated at the very earliest stages in the wider religious and cultic culture of the Ancient Near East.

他们从最初就影响着,广泛古代近东地区的宗教信仰。

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I also would like you to pick up this paperback, it's not terribly expensive.We're going to be using it in the first few weeks especially: The Ancient Near East.

同时我希望你们都能有这本书，它不是很贵的，我们将在开始的几周里,用到它，这本。

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and thinking to major in Near East Studies and maybe the Woodrow Wilson School.

目前我正在考虑读近东研究,可能是到伍德罗·威尔逊学院。

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This by the way is the portrait of the world; It looks a lot like my map of the Ancient Near East, but it's not.

这也就是世界的图景;,就像我画的古代近东的地图，但它不是那样的。

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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, Tell Dor each one of those is called a tell These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities.

在古代近东地区，被摧毁的城市一般较平坦，那么新城就可以建于废墟之上，这些土丘被称作“退尔“你们也许听过,这些就是小土丘,它们代表着一层层被摧毁又重建的城市。

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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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