Spanish Empire

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。

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。

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。