Both empires fell apart after existing for a few centuries, but China, after about three hundred years of confusion, was reunited and the subsequent periods of division were much shorter.
這兩個帝國經歷幾個世紀後都已衰亡，但是，經過大約三百年的混亂，中國又歸統一，而且以後分裂的期間也都很短。