The Christian Church might have stepped into the breach and imposed obedience and uniformity, because before terribly long, all of the West had been Christianized.

这时基督教试图接管国家,宣扬服从和统一的思想,因为很早以前,基督教在西方就根深蒂固了

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I'm not aware that any other culture that had city states had ideas of this kind that helped make explain why one was associated with it and cared about it.

我没有发现,其他城市国家的文化中存在一种思想,能够解释,为什么人与城邦关联并为其服务

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