and nobody would even dream of trying to take them on

而且也没有人尝试推翻他们
and building cities that would challenge their control of that.

去建立一个会遇到顽强抵抗的城市
So there are no Greek cities

因此一路往下穿过巴勒斯坦
as you keep coming down and pass Palestine.

就再无希腊城市了
You reach Egypt, and of course,

你来到了埃及的领地当然
Egypt is one of the great empires of antiquity going back into,

埃及是古代最伟大的帝国之一
perhaps, certainly into the fourth millennium, possibly into the fifth,

它有近四千年甚至五千年的历史
by no means as powerful as it used to be, far from it.

毫无疑问古埃及达到了空前绝后的强大
It has been conquered by now by other peoples.

但现在这个地区已经被外族征服了
If you're talking about the year 750 or something like that it's--

如果是说大约公元前750年左右
I think it's in the hands, well,

我想它先是
it is in the hands of the Assyrians

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