人们制造的东西及其制造方式决定了城市的兴衰，也影响着帝国的隆替。

The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline, and influence how empires rise and fall.

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东方在希腊文化中也有更根深蒂固的统一，罗马从早期希腊帝国继承了许多希腊和近东城市。

The East also had a more deeply rooted unity in the Greek culture of the numerous Greek and Near Eastern cities that Rome had inherited from earlier Grecian empires.

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尽管在罗马帝国灭亡后的城市崩溃的几个世纪里，教堂的仪式一直保持着人们对计时的兴趣，但教堂的时间是自然的时间。

Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature's time.

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But if you were going to be elite-- he wanted to establish cities throughout his empire that would be actually Greek cities, and he wanted to have the elite people all be able, at least, to speak Greek.

但是如果要成为精英阶层-,他要求帝国里的所有城市,都建为希腊式城市，要求所有精英阶层至少能够，说希腊语。

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Within his own lifetime, Aristotle would see Athens, Sparta, and the other great cities of Greece swallowed up by the great Macedonian Empire to the north.

在他有生之年，亚里士多德看到雅典，斯巴达，和其它重要的希腊城市,被北方的,马其顿帝国并吞。

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The alternative to the city, the empire, can only be ruled despotically.

替代的城市与帝国社会，将仅能接受专制统治。

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