So, the citadel and the farmland surrounding it, make up fundamentally the unit which is the Mycenaean kingdom.

因此,以城堡和周围的农田为根基,组成了称为迈锡尼帝国的文明

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It spread out beyond Crete because the Minoans established what we might want to call an empire in various parts of the Mediterranean, and it starts with Crete.

其所覆盖的区域比克里特岛更广阔,因为米诺斯文明建立了,现在我们所称的"帝国",其疆域分布于地中海的广大地区,它起源于特里克

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So the union of a universalist religion, with a monarch such as the Roman Empire, who ruled a vast empire, could nonetheless have put an end to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.

所以说,若是由信普救说者教会,与罗马帝国为代表的君主政体结盟,便会断送,其他文明中存在的自由前景

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