what you have is a rare human experience.

你会得到一些相当宝贵的经验
The creation almost of a clean slate,

这几乎就是从一张白纸重新创作
even more so I would argue than

甚至比起我认为
the disruption that it came after the fall of Rome,

比起紧随罗马陷落而出现的分裂更有价值
because there's one big difference.

因为这两者有一个巨大的差别
The fall of Rome did not destroy one of the most important tenacious

罗马的灭亡并没有对旧文化中最重要
and significant aspects of the old culture, the Roman Catholic Church,

最强韧最意味深远的罗马天主教会产生破坏
which remained and became the central fact for the new culture.

它保留了下了并成为了新文化的核心要素
There's nothing like that in the Mycenaean world.

在迈锡尼社会就没有这样的情况
We are really talking about something that's almost entirely fresh.

我们所说的这些确实是从头开始
The Greeks had no choice but to try to find their own way,

希腊人没有选择只能努力找到自己的路
uninfluenced as Mycenae was

并没有像迈锡尼人那样