roughly from 1600 to 1100 or so B.C.,

至公元前一千一百年迈锡尼文明时期
you are dealing with a largely unified culture.

你将看到一个高度统一的文化
What is it? What do we talk about the world like these days?

它是什么呢如何称呼那时的世界呢
What's the clich? Globalized world;

用什么词语呢全球化的世界
it was a globalized world,

那是一个全球化的世界
except it was a little piece of the globe.

只是那个世界并不大
But they didn't really know

但他们其实并不知道
or care about very much outside of the Mediterranean area.

也不关心地中海以外的地区
Now, in the respects that I have spelled out,

现在从我以上所阐述的几个方面
and I mean chiefly the fact

所要说明的主要事实是
that they were engaged in commerce and industry to some degree

他们从事贸易和某种程度的工业活动
and that they were a trading people and that they were

他们是商人