The capital of the great Aztec empire， which eventually morphed into today’s Mexico City， had about 300，000 inhabitants when Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1521.

特诺奇蒂特兰在历史上曾是伟大的阿兹特克帝国（即现在的墨西哥城）的首都。 1521年西班牙征服者到达该地时，这里曾有大约30万人口。

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Machu Picchu was constructed around 1450, at the height of the Inca empire, and was abandoned less than 100 years later, as the empire collapsed under Spanish conquest.

马丘比丘建于1450年前后，与印加王国在相同高度上，在之后的不到100年时间里，西班牙的入侵导致了帝国的瓦解，这座古城也成为废墟，遭到了遗弃。

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The Goths and Vandals make a mess of the Roman Empire next, but the last laugh is on them—most of them will become Romanized, eventually speaking Spanish, Italian and so on.

接着哥特人和汪达尔人把罗马帝国折腾得支离破碎，但被笑到最后的却是他们自己，他们中的大多数都罗马化了，最终说的是西班牙语，意大利语这类的语言。

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After the Spanish soldiers defeated the Aztec empire, they were able to seize the supplies of cacao and send them home.

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Because it's identified with the Spanish empire, with Spain, which not only wanted to extract taxes and to extract taxes and other revenue from its most prosperous province, but wanted to force people to remain Catholic.

因为天主教是与西班牙帝国联系在一起的,西班牙不仅从这个最富有的省份,榨取税收和其他收入,还想强迫人民保持天主教信仰

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We forget about the enormous trading vitality of Asia, even sea vitality and land vitality at the same time, but they are without any question by this point-- with the decline of the Spanish empire, which begins before this course-- the Dutch and the English.

我们先不考虑亚洲大量的贸易活动,包括同时的陆上和海上贸易,在十七世纪之前,随着西班牙帝国的衰退,欧洲最大的贸易实体,毫无疑问是荷兰和英国

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But by taking over the Spanish empire, America had become the kind of imperial power it had once denounced.

NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism

Woodrow Wilson had initially cheered the American takeover of the Spanish empire, although not as lustily as Roosevelt and McKinley.

NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism

Roosevelt was an enthusiastic supporter not only of the Spanish-American War, in which he enlisted, but of the subsequent American takeover of the Spanish empire.

NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism