This was why Christianity and other things were able to spread so easily, why Paul was able to travel around the empire.

所以基督教及其他信息,能传播地如此迅速，所以保罗能够周游帝国。

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And Machiavelli wrote, of course, the dominant form of political organization was the empire or, to speak more precisely, the Christian empire.

当然马奇亚维利所写的，优势政治组织模式,是帝国，或更确切地说，是基督帝国。

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Machiavelli rejected this idea of the empire and harked back, instead, to the model of republican Rome.

马奇亚维利拒绝这种,帝国的想法并回到先前论点，相对地，他回提罗马共和的模式。

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