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Most importantly the Byzantines themselves considered themselves not to be Bezantinoi or Hellenize Byzantines or Greeks but Romaioi. That is to say Romans.
最重要的是拜占庭人自己認為自己并不是Bezantinoi，也不是Hellenize或希臘人，而是羅馬人。
Two Christian versus Christian.
二、基督教和基督教的戰爭。
The intermittent squabbles between Christians turned into an Eastern versus Western Christian squabble.
基督徒之間的爭論直接導致了東西方基督徒的分歧。
And the founding of the two great branches of the Christian faith.
并最終促成了基督教兩大分支的成立。
The 1st great heresy was the so called Arian belief that Christ the Son was not of the same substance as God the Father but merely of similar substance.
第一大異端被稱作阿里烏斯派，它認為圣子和圣父不同，僅僅是有所相似。
Even Constantine the Great couldn't stamp that one out, his own son Constantious the II was a practicing Arian Christian.
即便是康斯坦丁大帝本人也不能推翻這一點，承認他的兒子康斯坦丁二世就是一個阿里烏斯派信徒。
Nor did Christians sit around and discuss this theological differences politely.
那么讓基督徒們坐下來友好地討論這一神學分歧也是不可能的了。
Fists and rocks flew and sometimes even entire nations fought.
人們為此拳腳相加，有時甚至大動干戈。
As the political divide between the Eastern and Western Roman world increased.
隨著東西羅馬帝國之間的政治分歧日益增多。
So too did the divide between the two halves of the Christian Church.
兩派基督教之間的分化也不斷加劇。
The Western Church assumed some of the Western Empire's social and political roles.
天主教擔負起了西羅馬帝國中一些社會政治責任。
And tended to be more independent minded in its dealing with kings.
而且在與國王打交道時，思想趨于更為獨立。
