What the Dutch did--the Netherlands is an extraordinarily small country, and it's the most populated country in Europe, then, per square kilometre, and is now--once.

那些荷兰人...荷兰是一个,非常非常小的国家,也是当时欧洲人口密度最高的国家,如果以每平方公里人口计算,现在也是

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The only cities in Europe that were comparable-- and they were smaller--were Naples, an extraordinarily poor city, and Constantinople, Istanbul, and, of course, in Japan, Edo, which would become known as Tokyo.

欧洲唯一可以与之匹敌的,就是稍小的那不勒斯,那是个非常穷的城市,另外还有君士坦丁堡即伊斯坦布尔,当然还有日本的江户,即之后的东京

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Now, there were other localized slave societies, surely; certainly within Africa, to a certain degree even before Europeans arrived and certainly after Europeans arrived, particularly after the regularization of the Atlantic slave trade.

除此之外当然还有很多小区域奴隶社会,非洲当然有,甚至是原始欧洲,欧洲现代人到来后当然更多,特别是在,大西洋奴隶贸易合法化之后

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