During the sixteenth century, the peacetime armies of the Continental Powers were about 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers--very, very little.

6世纪时,欧洲大陆上的强国,和平时期的军队数量很少,大约一万到两万人

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This is a point we'll come back to, particularly when we're talking about the two most important states, two of the great powers of the period that did not have absolute rule.

这一点我们后面会详细讲,特别是当我们谈到最重要的两个,没有建立绝对统治的强国的时候

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