In the Epic of Atrahasis we do in fact read of a reason, and the text there states, "The land became wide and the people became numerous.

在《阿特拉哈西斯》中，我们确实能找到愿意，土地扩大，人口激增。

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I will strike them with pestilence and disown them, and I will make of you a nation far more numerous than they!"

我要用瘟疫杀死他们，叫你的后裔成为一个国家，比他们强盛“

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Now it didn't entirely end, and there were some South Carolinians and Georgians who wanted to re-open it, and a few folks out in Louisiana, who wanted to re-open it at numerous times in the antebellum period, especially in the late 1850s.

但在当时它并没有完全结束,有些南卡罗来纳人和格鲁吉亚人,仍想重新开放它,在路易斯安那州还有一小群人,这些人在内战前曾无数次,企图重新开放这个市场,尤其是十九世纪五十年代末

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