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。
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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。
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In famine from the ash , with the bulk of their civilization washed away , the remaining minoans were overrun by mycaeneans from greece , and knossos finally fell 从火山灰而来的饥荒，它们文明的牛被冲走，残存的克里特文明被希腊的迈锡尼文明蹂躏，克诺索斯最后倒下了。
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Many ancient greek myths take their location from minoan crete more than ten centuries before plato . daedalus , the ancient scientist , was supposedly the architect of the palace at knossos 很多比柏拉图时期早一千年的古希腊传说是发生在克里特岛文明。代达罗斯，古代科学家，按照推测是克诺索斯宫殿的建筑师。
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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。
