Scientists Can't Agree On The First Ancient City
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Imagine building the biggest city the world has ever seen, thousands of people living out their lives in close quarters along planned streets with a central meeting space.
想象一下建造一座世界前所未有的最大城市，成千上万的人在规划好的街道旁，围绕着中心聚会空间，在狭小的范围内生活。
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And then you go, never mind, and you burn the whole thing to the ground.
然后你却说，算了，把整个城市付之一炬。
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Over five thousand years ago, that is exactly what the Cucuteni-Tripolye people in Eastern Europe did.
五千多年前，东欧的库库特尼-特里波耶人正是这样做的。
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Just one of their settlements may have been home to as many as forty-six thousand people.
仅他们的一处定居点可能就居住着多达四万六千人。
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That many people living in the same place was virtually unheard of anywhere in the world at the time.
在当时的世界各地，在同一个地方居住这么多人几乎是闻所未闻的。
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