TPO 14 第三篇
Pastoralism in Ancient Inner Eurasia
(田园主义)在古代欧亚内陆
农业、铁器和班图人
There is evidence of agriculture in Africa prior to 3000 B.C. It may have developed independently, but many scholars believe that the spread of agriculture and iron throughout Africa linked it to the major centers of the Near East and Mediterranean world. 它可能是独立发展的,但很多学者认为农业和铁器在非洲的传播将费中与近东的中心和地中海世界联系了起来。 The drying up of what is now the Sahara desert had pushed many peoples to the south into sub-Sahara Africa. These peoples settled at first in scattered hunting-and-gathering bands, although in some places near lakes and rivers, people who fished, with a more secure food supply, lived in larger population concentrations. Agriculture seems to have reached these people from the Near East, since the first domesticated crops were millets and sorghums whose origins are not African but west Asian. 农业技术可能来自于近东最终为非洲人所知,因为最初驯化的农作物是起源于西亚而不是非洲的小米和高粱。 Once the idea of planting diffused, Africans began to develop their own crops, such as certain varieties of rice, and they demonstrated a continued receptiveness to new imports. 一旦种植的思想传播开来,非洲人就开始培育他们自己的农作物,比如某些水稻,并且他们一直愿意接受新的外来作物。 The proposed areas of the domestication of African crops lie in a band that extends from Ethiopia across southern Sudan to West Africa. Subsequently, other crops, such as bananas, were introduced from Southeast Asia.人们认为驯化非洲作物的地区从埃塞俄比亚一直延伸到苏丹的南部,再到西非。接下来,其他的作物,比如香蕉,就从南亚传入到非洲了。欢迎光临 寄托家园留学论坛 (https://bbs.gter.net/) | Powered by Discuz! X2 |