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Fortunately they did not live up to their glorious name
幸運的是，他們沒像其光輝的名字那樣，
and the Western Empire was allowed to limp on but not for much longer.
他們允許西羅馬繼續茍延殘喘，但是這也沒有持續多長時間。
The Eastern Roman Empire remained strong;
東羅馬帝國依然很強大，
Constantinople was built on a site controlling the strategically important Bosphorus separating Europe from Asia.
君士坦丁堡所在地控制著具有戰略意義的博斯普魯斯海峽把歐洲和亞洲相分離。
The Eastern Emperors were often able to steer migrating Barbarians such as the Goths and the Vandals, past their own land and straight into the Western Empire.
東羅馬皇帝往往能夠引導遷徙中的蠻族，例如哥特人，汪達爾人等經過東羅馬的領土，直入西方帝國。
The Eastern Empire share of the limes (boundary space) was mostly Egyptian and Syrian Desert as opposed to the miles and miles of heavily populated Danube and Rhine valleys defended by the Western Empire.
東羅馬帝國的領土，即邊界空間，主要是埃及和敘利亞的沙漠，而西羅馬則控制著人口密集，地域遼闊的多瑙河和萊茵河河谷地區。
The Eastern part of the Empire was also more urbanized and more heavily populated with a much stronger economic base. Ancient Egypt provided mountains of grain and the East free peasant farmers were far more numerous than their semi-enslaved Western counterparts.
東羅馬城市化水平更高，人口更為稠密，擁有更強大的經濟基礎。古埃及為其提供了堆積如山的糧食，享有自由之身的農民數量遠遠超過西羅馬半奴隸狀態下的農民。
What manufacturing occurred in the Empire took place in the East
制造業首先出現在東羅馬，
and the East was also the place where the profitable trade from Arabia, India and China was controlled.
東羅馬同時還掌控著阿拉伯，印度和中國的貿易通道，利潤豐厚。
The patriarchs of the Christian church in the Eastern Empire basically accepted political
東羅馬基督教會的主教基本上接受君士坦丁堡皇帝的政治權威
and spiritual authority of the Emperor in Constantinople.
和精神統治。
This was far less complicated than the Western Emperor's tendency to obey the Bishop of Rome or Pope on major issues.
和西羅馬皇帝必須服從羅馬主教在重大問題上的決議相比，這要簡單得多。
Indeed this division between Western (Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox Christianity) would parallel the physical division between the Western and Eastern Empires.
事實上，這樣的劃分方法，即西方天主教和東方東正教，和東西帝國按照地理位置來劃分是一致的。
