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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Keith O'Brien, The first ambassadors; How ancient kings invented a powerful
idea: diplomacy. Boston Globe, Aug. 22, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/08/22/the_first_ambassadors/
Note:
(1) Mesopotamia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia
(Greek for "[land] between the rivers")
(2) Akkadian language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language
(spoken in ancient Mesopotamia/ The earliest attested Semitic language, it
used the cuneiform writing system derived | c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 2 I wonder why the Globe report quoted the professor as saying, "Communication
was done at the speed one could walk." Wasn't there a horse?
(1) John Noble Wilford, Earlier Date Suggested for Horse Domestication. New
York Times, Mar. 6, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/science/06horses.html
(horse domestication around 3500 B.C., a millennium earlier than previously
thought; enabled Eurasian societies' dispersal into Europe and elsewhere,
together with spread of Indo-European languages; firs |
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