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This changed however after the Eastern Emperor Justinian brutally re-conquered Italy, erasing much of the Roman culture still left, what little culture, infrastructure was left behind was destroyed in the Lombard conquest of Italy, which started in 568 AD.
但是，在东罗马帝国查士丁尼一世，通过血腥的战争，重新占领意大利后，情况就变了，他破坏了大量罗马遗迹和文化，之后遗留下来为数不多的罗马文明，也在568年伦巴第人入侵意大利时遭到毁灭，
The city of Rome became a shabby backwater full of crumbling buildings and starving masses.
罗马城成为一潭死水，破旧不堪，到处是摇摇欲坠的建筑和饥饿嶙峋的民众。
Only the Bishops of Rome, the Popes, kept the situation from getting worse, but the Papacy was not yet a substitute for effective government. Eventually the Western Empire would be revived, but not until 800 AD.
只有罗马教皇阻止了事态更进一步恶化，但是罗马教皇取代不了有效的政府机制，最终西罗马帝国覆灭，直到公元800年才重新复兴强大。
Given the chaos ensuing after the Lombard invasion of Italy 568 AD is my choice of logical ending date for the Western Empire and if you don't like that argue with me.
考虑到伦巴第人在568年入侵意大利后所引起的混乱局面，我认为西罗马灭亡的时间应该从那时开始算起，有不同意见的人可以和我探讨。
Segment 14b: Rome as a Christian Empire.
14章 第二部分 基督教罗马帝国
The crisis of the third century AD changed the Roman world for good, internally and externally.
三世纪危机彻底改变了罗马的内部环境和外部环境。
The crisis is said to have ended in 284 AD with the rise of Diocletian.
随着戴克里先的崛起，284年，三世纪危机结束。
Diocletian's solution was establishing the dominate, a totalitarian state that extracted the maximum wealth from the economy to protect the Roman worlds borders.
戴克里先的方案是建立一个集权统治国家，从经济中最大程度获取财富以保护罗马帝国的边境。
Save for those closely connected to the Roman imperial family, life got tougher for everybody across the board.
除了那些和罗马皇室关系密切的人，所有普通百姓的生活日益艰辛起来。
The old state religion of the Romans had changed into the Emperor's cult of personality,
罗马人以前信仰国教，现在变成了对君主的个人崇拜。
Diocletian had been chosen by the Gods, was a God himself and if you didn't like it you either kept your mouth shut or you got killed.
戴克里先声称是被神选中的，他自己就是神，如果其他人有意见，要么乖乖闭嘴，要么就被杀头。
Understandably many people did not enjoy this sort of existence.
自然，很多人不想要这种君主崇拜。
With so many possible religions to choose from, none grew during the imperial crisis quite like Christianity did.
罗马人可以有很多种宗教选择，但是在这场危机中，没有任何一个宗教的发展壮大的速度可以和基督教相媲美。
