Archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were stunned to find the ruins and the records of remarkable peoples and cultures--massive, complex empires in some cases, but some of which had completely disappeared from human memory.

十九和二十世纪的考古学家们,震惊地发现了,古代伟大名族和文化的遗迹，有些还是大规模，复杂的帝国遗迹,但也有一些就完全从人类记忆中消失了。

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By 1708 and 1709 he has created a more European-style administration for this vast empire.

从一七零八年到一七零九年间,他在广袤帝国中推行了欧式的政权管理机构

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Dante, in his book, De Monarchia on monarchy, saw Aristotle as giving credence to the idea of a universal monarchy under the leadership of a Christian prince.

但丁在他的《论帝制》中，视亚里士多德,为力主世界帝国的概念,且是由一位基督王子所主宰。

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So the union of a universalist religion, with a monarch such as the Roman Empire, who ruled a vast empire, could nonetheless have put an end to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.

所以说,若是由信普救说者教会,与罗马帝国为代表的君主政体结盟,便会断送,其他文明中存在的自由前景

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The Russian empire is one of those empires that continued, arguably-- not arguably, it was the case-- after the four empires disappeared with World War I.

俄帝国可以说是,那些得以延续的帝国之一,这的确是事实,毕竟此前的四大帝国在一战中相继陨落

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