Mar 16, 2006 21:12
18 yrs ago
Arabic term

حضارة الموسن

Homework / test Arabic to English Other History civilization
، إلى إن حدوث هذه الظاهرة ، أدى إلى سقوط حضارة ( الموسن ) في بيرو القديمة ، فعلى الرغم من إن تلك الحضارة استطاعت تفادي أخطار هذه الظاهرة عدة مرات ،إلا إن المرة الأخيرة أدت إلى تدمير نظام الري الناجح الذي أقامه أبناء حضارة ( الموسن ) فكانت هي الضربة القاضية ، وفيما يتعلق بحضارة المايا ،
Proposed translations (English)
3 Moche
4 Mesoamerica civilization
Change log

Mar 16, 2006 22:25: ocean2gulf changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (3): Ala Rabie, ALMERCANA, ocean2gulf

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Discussion

Mariam Osmann (asker) Mar 20, 2006:
thnx all! i think prozness may be coz it doesn't exist like that in Ar.
but the moche is the most relevant not in accordance with the letter of Ar word but in the text and with this particular event.
Nesrin Mar 16, 2006:
وما هي هذه "الظاهرة" التي أدت إلى سقوط حضارة الموسن؟
Ala Rabie Mar 16, 2006:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_periods_of_Peru
there's nothing even close to this name..

Proposed translations

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Moche

I realise now from your previous question that the phenomenon in question is "El Nino". I did a quick search for Peru, ancient civilizations, El Nino, and found some interesting information on ancient people called the Moche. I don't know how this became الموسن in your text, but you never know...

Here is what I found:

But then Steve Bourget found evidence of enormous rain damage at a Moche site called Huancaco which he could date. Here new building work had been interrupted and torn apart by torrential rain, and artefacts found in the damaged area dated to almost exactly the period Thompson had predicted there would have been a mega El Nino. Thompson's theory seemed to be stacking up.

Then archaeologists began to find evidence of Thompson's mega drought. They found huge sand dunes which appeared to have drifted in and engulfed a number of Moche settlements around 600 to 650 AD. The story all fitted together. The evidence suggested the Moche had been hit by a doubly whammy: a huge climate disaster had simply wiped them out.

For several years this became the accepted version of events; the riddle of the Moche had been solved.

http://www.tv.com/the-lost-civilisation-of-peru/episode/4168...

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-03-16 22:37:09 GMT)
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From an article called "The Lost Civilisation of Peru".
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thnx Nesrin !"
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Mesoamerica civilization

Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico through Central America which produced a set of culturally related civilizations before the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Mesoamerican is a general adjective to refer to that group of Pre-Columbian cultures.
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