The expansion of colonial shipping in turn accelerated urbanization by creating a need for centralized docks, warehouses, and repair shops in the colonies.

殖民地航运业的扩张反过来又加速了城市化进程，因为殖民地需要集中的码头、仓库和修理铺。

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Towns in the Northern colonies were centralized and compact.

北方殖民地的城镇是集中而紧凑的。

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Some scholars argue that the concentration of water within the urban core of these sites provided a centralized source of political authority for Maya elites based largely on controlled water access.

一些学者认为，集中在这些地点的城市核心区的水资源为玛雅精英提供了一个集中的政治权力来源，而这些权力主要是基于对水资源的控制。

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All states centralized, became larger and centralized their ability to extract resources from their population.

所有中央集权化制的国家,会变得更大,并集中所有能力,对人民敲骨吸髓

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We've centralized the note issue in the United States starting in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Board so your notes that you see are called Federal Reserve Notes.

我们在1913年通过联邦储备金监察小组,集中了美国发行的钞票,所以你看到的钞票,叫做联邦储备券。

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