what we find are a number of units in the Greek world.

我们在希腊文明遗迹找到许多小的单元
Call them towns for the sake of argument,

称这些为城镇是为了避免引起争议
sounds too urban, but call them that.

听起来太城市化了不过就这么叫吧
Small, that means to say small in extent, few people,

小就是说面积小人口少
because the population surely went down,

当时人口肯定是下降了
since the capacity to grow food, to distribute it,

因为要想生产粮食分配产品
that whole system that depended on the existence of a central palace

这整个系统都需要一个中央政府
and a strong king running everything,

一个强有力的统治者来统筹
running production, running distribution, it's gone.

统筹生产统筹分配但这已成为了历史
You know that doesn't come back.

你们都知道这个中央政府并没有再度出现
When that's destroyed, you're in terrible shape.

当这一切都被破坏你肯定会形销骨瘦
So, the population surely dropped,

所以人口当然下降了