关于新疆,曾经有过一个有意思的对话。一次,有人问英国历史学家汤因比:“如果让你重新选择出生地,你希望自己出生在什么地方?”汤因比回答说:“我希望能出生在公元纪年刚开始的一个地方,在那个地方古印度文明、古希腊文明、古伊朗文明和古老的中国文明融合在一起。”汤因比假设的出生地就是古代新疆。他认为:“打开人类文明历史的钥匙就遗落在新疆,遗落在新疆的塔里木盆地。”作为英国著名历史学家,汤因比在其著作《历史研 There is an interesting dialogue about Xinjiang. One time, someone asked the British historian Toynbee: “If you had to choose your place of birth again, where do you want to be born?” Toynbee replied: “I hope I was born in the beginning of the Christian era One place, where the ancient Indian civilization, ancient Greek civilization, ancient Iranian civilization and ancient Chinese civilization together. ”“ The birthplace of Toynbe assumed ancient Xinjiang. In his opinion, ”the key to opening the history of human civilization is left in Xinjiang and left in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang." As a famous British historian, Toynbee wrote in his book Historical Research