Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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So you have three main trade routes that cross the country, and they were used by trading caravans that would carry gold and grain and spices and textiles and other goods between Egypt and the rest of the Fertile Crescent and up into Asia Minor.

你有三条主要道路穿过这个国家，他们被通商的车队所使用,驮着金子，谷物，香料，纺织品和其他货物,在埃及与其他肥沃的伊斯兰教国家间,向上到达小亚细亚。

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Quickly, India and Pakistan, ? How do they get along? Has the prospects for war between the two countries we see is in the background? -Probably yes.

印度和巴基斯坦，它们的关系怎么样,这两个国家间潜在的战争,可能爆发吗？，-也许吧。

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The correlation across countries in consumption changes is low.

国家间的消费相关性,变化很小。

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