(MA) Okay, as you look at this next exhibit, you'll notice something quite common --- an ordinary bar of soap. Now, soap has been around a long time --- in fact, the ancient Phoenicians produced soap as a substance for washing the body way back in 6

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But at a cost: he lost so many of his men that he is said to have cried out, One more such victory and we are lost! 但是代价很大:他的士兵战死的有如此之多以至据说他曾说:第二个这样的胜利我再也承受不了了! Whi

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There they subdued the inhabitants, and set them to work in the fields. 他们在那里征服了从前的居民,并让他们在田地劳作。 They themselves founded a city where they lived, and called it Sparta. 他们自己建造了一个名叫斯

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The wild tribes living there brought them furs and precious stones in exchange for tools, cooking pots and colored cloth. 商人们用他们带来的毛皮和宝石从居住在那里的未开化的部族换取工具、蒸煮锅和花布。 For Phoeni

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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

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Of course, the Greeks enjoyed a certain degree of safety because their country lay hidden beyond the deep waters of the Aegean. But here their old enemies, the Phoenicians, stepped forward with offers of help and advice to the Persians. If the Persia

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