You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

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From the time they formed their republics until they were conquered by alien empires, the Greeks also rejected monarchy of any kind.

无论是在城邦共和国时期,还是在异国征服时期,希腊人一直排斥任何形式的君主政体

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And so they did come back hundred years later and conquered it, and since--this is the link that explains the old story.

所以他们百年后回来并征服了这片土地,之后...这是一条线索,能解释这一古老的故事

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The emperor in the east was able to do that because they were not conquered by the barbarians, but in the West, you have this situation where nobody is fully in charge.

东方帝王之所以能够如愿以偿,是因为他们没有受到野蛮人的入侵,但是在西方,你面临的情形是,没有人负有完全的责任

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Colony is a Latin word ultimately for colonia and the Roman colonies were, first of all,garrisons that they planted in land they had conquered to keep the people quiet.

殖民地是拉丁词Colony的衍生,对于古罗马的殖民地来说,首先,派兵驻守占领的城市,震慑当地民众

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