For the longest time, Saint Augustine and Florida were part of the Spanish Empire.

在很长一段时间里，圣奥古斯丁和佛罗里达州是西班牙帝国的一部分。

That revolution was what marked the beginning of the country's independence from the Spanish Empire.

那场革命标志着这个国家从西班牙帝国独立的开始。

The Central and South American revolutionaries began fighting for their independence from the reeling Spanish Empire.

中美和南美的革命者们开始与西班牙帝国对抗为了独立而战。

The Spanish Empire would also have one of the largest militaries in the world.

西班牙帝国也拥有世界上最大的军队之一。

The Spanish Empire in its heyday used to be the most powerful empire the world had ever seen.

西班牙帝国在全盛时期曾是世界上最强大的帝国。

1 out of every 4 Catholics in the entire world would call the new Spanish Empire " home" .

全世界四分之一的天主教徒会视新西班牙帝国为自己的“家”。

Which is where the majority of the Spanish Empire's territory and population would be located.

这里也是西班牙帝国的大部分领土和人口所在地。

The Spanish Empire would also control the largest oil reserves in the world in modern day Venezuela.

西班牙帝国还控制着世界上最大的石油储备，也就是现在的委内瑞拉。

But among the results of Sicily's incorporation into the Spanish Empire was that it was barely affected by Renaissance humanism.

西西里并入西班牙帝国产生了诸多后果，但它几乎没有受到文艺复兴人文主义的影响。

The Aztec empire counted some 6 million inhabitants, nearly on a par with the population of the whole Spanish Empire itself.

阿兹特克帝国约有 600 万居民，几乎与整个西班牙帝国的人口相当。

So what would happen if all 21 of these countries united today and create a new and modern Spanish Empire of the 21st Century?

那么，如果今天所有这 21 个国家合并统一，建立一个新的、现代的 21 世纪西班牙帝国，会发生什么呢？

Spanish is the majority language spoken in 21 different countries and territories around the world that largely mirror the historical borders of the old Spanish Empire.

西班牙语是世界上 21 个不同国家和地区的主要语言，这些国家和地区很大程度上反映了旧西班牙帝国的历史边界。

During that war, the United States decisively defeated the alien Spanish Empire and acquired a vast new Colonial Empire across the Caribbean and the Pacific in the process.

在这场战争中，美国果断击败了异族的西班牙帝国，并在此过程中获得了一个横跨加勒比海和太平洋的庞大新殖民帝国。

When " Las Meninas" was painted at the end of Philip's reign, the Spanish Empire was in a period of decline, having suffered defeat in The Thirty Years War, as well as economic and political difficulties.

首先是这幅画的历史背景，《宫女》创作于菲利普统治的末期，西班牙皇室日趋衰落，遭遇了 “三十年战争” 失败之后。

When last we checked in, China was a thriving manufacturing power, about to be overtaken by Europe, but still heavily involved in world trade, especially an importer of silver from the Spanish empire.

我们上次入住时， 中国是一个蓬勃发展的制造大国，即将被欧洲超越， 但仍大量参与世界贸易， 尤其是从西班牙帝国进口白银的国家。

The Spanish empire’s silver trade was the first truly global market — even India was involved, but we’re really out of time — and its consequences were dire, even if it did make some people rich.

西班牙帝国的白银贸易是第一个真正的全球市场——甚至印度也参与其中， 但我们真的没时间了——其后果是可怕的， 即使它确实让一些人变得富有。

The year that brought Hawaii finally under the American flag likewise drew to a conclusion another long controversy over a similar outpost in the Atlantic, one of the last remnants of the once glorious Spanish empire—the island of Cuba.

——夏威夷最终归入美国国旗的那一年同样结束了另一场关于大西洋上类似前哨基地的长期争论，古巴岛是曾经辉煌的西班牙帝国的最后残余之一。