Archaeologists have discovered that four palaces were built basically on top of each other on the knossos hilltop , the first in about 1900 bc 考古学家已经发现,克诺萨斯山丘上那四座一座接着一座建造的宫殿,第一座就是建于西元前1900年。
Now consider this : the minoan palace at knossos , just outside the city of iraklion , was built in 1900 bc , 1 , 453 years before the parthenon 现在想想这个:位于伊拉克里翁市郊的米农文明克诺萨斯宫殿,建造于西元前1900年,比帕德嫩神庙还早1453年。
In time came other cities in other places : harappa and mohenjodaro in the indus valley , memphis and thebes in egypt , yin and shang cities in china , mycenae in greece , knossos in crete , ugarit in syria and , most spectacularly , rome , the first great metropolis , which boasted , at its zenith in the third century ad , a population of more than 1m people 历史到了特定时刻,其他区域的城邦不断涌现:印度河河谷的哈拉帕和摩罕达约、埃及的孟斐斯和底比斯、中国的殷商古城、希腊的迈锡尼、克利特岛的克诺萨斯、叙利亚的乌加列,还有最蔚为富丽的伟大都城罗马,在公元3实际的鼎盛时期,其自夸拥有超过一百万的人口。