The Roman empire, by this time, by the year 300, has been divided up into two different basic empires, the west and the east.

到300年为止，罗马帝国，已经一分为二，东罗马和西罗马。

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The Silk road connected Bactria with the Roman Empire in the west and China in the far east.

丝绸之路连接巴克特里亚的罗马帝国在西部和中国在远东地区。

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From that base he soon began a long series of saber-rattling negotiations with the capitals of the Roman Empire at Constantinople in the East and Ravenna in the West.

从此起步，他很快开始了长期的战争叫嚣，与东罗马帝国首都君士坦丁堡和西罗马帝国首都拉汶纳进行谈判。

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The West of the Germanic tribes that had toppled the Roman empire was weak and it was divided.

弱小分裂的西方日耳曼部族,推翻了罗马帝国

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Thanks to the preservation of these works by Arab scholars when they had been lost in the West after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Medieval scholars did not just study these texts and the works of the Arabs who added to them, but used them to make discoveries in their own right.

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