The ancient civilizations of Central and Latin America were founded upon corn.

中美洲和拉丁美洲的古代文明社会是建立在玉米之上的。

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One of the challenges that faced ancient civilizations like Egypt was timekeeping, calendars.

像埃及这样的古代文明面临的挑战之一是计时，也就是日历。

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At any rates, that conversation got me thinking about archaeological finds that really changed our understanding of ancient civilizations.

无论如何，那次谈话让我想到了一些考古发现，它们确实改变了我们对古代文明的理解。

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So: the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.

古埃及，美索不达米亚地区,我们称之为新月沃地，这里的这一小部分,跟罗德州岛差不多大的是迦南。

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So barring that, nonetheless, what we see reminds us very much of these ancient Bronze Age early civilizations.

尽管如此,我们所看到的遗迹依旧,和古代的青铜时期的早期文明非常相似

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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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With future and ancient civilizations taken care of, lets head back out into space.

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Sixteenth-century conquistadors cut a swath through ancient civilizations that had once rivaled those of the Aztec and Inca.

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Ancient civilizations, and cracking the code of long-lost languages is usually the reserve of Hollywood, or a good old-fashioned book.

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