A number of notable scholars and writers appeared by 788 and, by the last decade of the eighthcentury, a cultural revival was in full bloom.
到公元788年出现了许多著名的学者和作家,到公元8世纪的最后十年,文化复兴正处于鼎盛时期。
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The first documented English mill was in the eighthcentury, but three centuries later about 5,000 were recorded, suggesting that every settlement of any size had its mill.
By the early eighthcentury, the empire had lost roughly two-thirds of the territory it had possessed in the year 600, and its remaining area was being raided by Arabs and Bulgarians.