Mesopotamia
[,mesəpə'teimiə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The centre of gravity of Islam shifted across the desert from Damascus to Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The broad outline of the history of Egypt is simpler than the history of Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Trajan also invaded Parthia and annexed Armenia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Thence they came by way of Mesopotamia to Ormuz on the Persian Gulf, as if they contemplated a sea voyage. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Armenia was overrun, all Mesopotamia was conquered and Persia beyond the rivers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To the east, in Mesopotamia, the British, using Indian troops chiefly, made a still remoter flank attack upon the Central Powers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Men in Egypt and Mesopotamia also developed a primitive type of basket-work boat, caulked with bitumen. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At last there happened to Egypt what happened so frequently to the civilizations of Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Never at any time did the Romans succeed in pushing their empire beyond Mesopotamia, and upon Mesopotamia their hold was never very secure. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mesopotamia became a land of ruins and desolation, through which great waters ran to waste, or overflowed their banks to make malarious swamps. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But it was only under Hulagu in Mesopotamia that these ideas seem to have been embodied in a deliberate policy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For a long time civilization may quite possibly have developed in Mesopotamia without any relations with the parallel beginnings in Egypt. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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