Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

颜色会褪、庙宇会倒、帝国会垮，可明智的话却不朽。

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

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。

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Empires can fall.

帝国会衰败。

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So, the rise and fall of empires is obviously a theme of this course.

因此,帝国的兴衰,显然是这门课关注的主题之一

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Though empires tend to fall after their Afghan skirmishes, he says, for the British this was largely down to World War II, for the Soviets, it was ideological crisis in eastern Europe and for Alexander the Great it was a failure to ensure the stable succession of his Asian empire.

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His latest attack is spelled out in a new book called The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

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