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If there is any lesson that can be learned from history,

如果有任何可以從歷史中吸取的教訓，

it's that empires and countries come and go just like people do.

帝國和國家就像人們一樣來來去去。

They both have their entrances and their exits that are sometimes graceful and sometimes not.

他們都有他們的開始和終結，有時候優雅，有時候不是。

The Ottoman Empire almost seems like it's from ancient history,

奧斯曼帝國看起來幾乎像是來自古代，

but Nintendo was founded at the same time the empire was

但在任天堂成立時，鄂圖曼帝國

still huge, and occupied parts of Europe and Africa.

仍然十分的龐大，並且在這時佔據了歐洲和非洲的部分地區

The Ottoman Empire had already been in a very long decline

但鄂圖曼帝國在這個時間點上

by this point, and

已經出現了很長一段時間的的衰落

finally, officially ceased to exist on 1922.

終於在1922年正式不復存在。

That was nearly 100 years ago, but what would the Ottoman Empire

那是近乎100年前的事，但如果鄂圖曼帝國

look like today if it were to suddenly and unexpectedly

回到今天，如果它突然

come back into existence?

回到現代？

Let's imagine a hypothetical Neo-Ottoman Empire with

讓我們來想像一個假設的新的鄂圖曼帝國

her borders restored to what they were at the Empire's territorial height

它恢復了帝國的巔峰時期的邊界領土

back in 1683, right before

回到1683年，

the Ottomans lost the Siege of Vienna against the Polish and the Hapsburgs.

在鄂圖曼人在維也納之圍中敗給了波蘭人和哈布斯堡王朝以前。

If this happened a total of 31 modern countries

如果這發生了，

across 3 continents would lose

總共31個橫跨3大洲的現代國家

some or all of their land their territory to the Ottoman's.

將失去部分或全部的領土

Despite looking big and scary on a map, it would all be a lot smaller than Australia.

儘管在地圖上看起來很大很可怕(鄂圖曼帝國)，但它比澳大利亞小得多。

Australia apparently needs to get their act together filling up all this land though,

不過澳大利亞顯然需要人來填補這些土地

because the Ottomans would have over 17 times

因為鄂圖曼帝國有(澳大利亞)17倍的人口

their population, at around 426 million people.

它(鄂圖曼帝國)的人口約為4.26億人。

That makes the Neo-Ottoman Empire the third largest country in the world in terms of people.

這使得新鄂圖曼帝國成為世界上人口第三大的國家。

Obviously staying behind the usual suspects; India and China.

在榜首的印度和中國的後面。

The capital of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years was Constantinople, or Istanbul

數百年來鄂圖曼帝國的首都是君士坦丁堡或伊斯坦布爾

and that still all this time later would be the largest and most important

而這個時間點以後都將是最大也是最重要的

city in the modern empire.

現代帝國的城市。

Most of the top ten largest cities in the empire today would

今天帝國十大城市中的大多數都幾乎

all be located in the Middle East except for two:

全部位於中東地區，除了兩個：

Algiers in North Africa and Bucharest deeper in Europe.

北非的阿爾及爾和歐洲深處的布加勒斯特。

All of these cities and lands would mean that the Ottoman Empire today,

所有這些城市和土地將意味著今天的鄂圖曼帝國，

like it was hundreds of years ago, would

就像數百年前那樣

be a very diverse place with people from dozens of

與幾十個不同的背景和宗教一起

different backgrounds and religions. Arabs would

成為一個非常不同的地方。

make up the vast majority of the Ottoman Population at 48%

阿拉伯人會佔鄂圖曼帝國人口的48％

while ethnic Turks would come in at second place at

而土耳其族將在第二名

14.5%. Because of the large amount

佔14.5％。

of territory in Eastern Europe, people from Slavic

由於巨大的東歐領土，

backgrounds would make up 11% of the Neo-Ottoman population.

斯拉夫人將佔新鄂圖曼人口的11％。

Followed up by large numbers of Kurds, Romanians, and

隨之而來的是大量的庫爾德人，羅馬尼亞人，巴基斯坦人和希臘人。

Greeks. Based on those numbers, the Arabic and Turkish languages

根據這些數據，阿拉伯語和土耳其語

would be the most commonly spoken in the new empire.

將是新帝國最常用的語言。

Probably followed next by French, owing to the old French

由於以前法國殖民主義的影響的影響，

colonial influencing places like Lebanon, Syria

以前法國殖民的地方，如黎巴嫩，敘利亞

and Algeria. Moving on to the never controversial religious

和阿爾及利亞。將會爆發從未引起過的宗教衝突

section of the video, The Abrahamic Phase would dominate the empire;

在視頻的這部分，亞伯拉罕階段將主宰帝國;

Islam would be the single largest faith divided between 56% Sunnis and 8% Shias.

56％遜尼派和8％什葉派的伊斯蘭教將成爲人民之間最大的單一信仰。

Christians would make up an additional 22% and Jews another 2%, Atheists and Agnostics would make up

基督徒佔22％，猶太教佔2％，無神論者和不可知論者佔3％，

3% while other beliefs and religions would make up the final

而其他信仰和宗教將加起來佔9％。

9%. The Ottoman economy would definitely be a powerhouse with an estimated nominal GDP of around

鄂圖曼在經濟肯定會成為附近的GDP最高的國家

$3,675 trillion US Dollars. This would put the empire roughly on a par with the German economy and make it the 5th largest economy

GDP達到3,675萬億美元。這將使該帝國與德國經濟大致相當，並使其成為世界第五大經濟體

worldwide. The economic comparison with Germany is interesting though, because while the numbers appear similar,

與德國的經濟比較很有趣，因為雖然數字看起來相似，

they don't exactly tell the whole story.

他們的條件是完全不一樣的

Remember the Ottoman population is about

記住鄂圖曼的人口是達到

426 million,

4.26億

while Germany's population is just

而德國的人口只是

a bit over 82 million,

稍稍超過8200萬，

but still manages a slightly larger sized economy.

但仍然擁有著規模稍大的經濟體。

This means that on average, a citizen from the Neo-Ottoman empire

這意味著平均來說，新鄂圖曼帝國的人均GDP

would be significantly poorer than a citizen from modern Germany.

會比現代德國的人民少得多。

The poorest areas of the modern Ottoman state would be

現代奧斯曼帝國最貧窮的地區將是

Syria, Moldova, and Ukraine, while the wealthiest areas

敘利亞，摩爾多瓦和烏克蘭，而最富有的地區

would be Kuwait, Israel, and the territory taken

將是科威特，以色列和部分

from Saudi Arabia. The large economy and population inside

來自沙特阿拉伯的地方。哪裏的經濟和人口眾多

the new Ottoman empire would make it capable of fielding the

新的鄂圖曼帝國將使它非常强大的戰鬥能力

largest military in the world, estimated to be around

估計鄂圖曼擁有全世界最大的軍隊

8.1 million soldiers strong to begin with.

他們擁有强♂壯的810萬名士兵

Adding up all the territory included in the

將所有包含在

empire and their contributions to national defense, and the Ottoman military

帝國及其對國防和奧斯曼軍隊的軍費需求

budget would be $137 billion dollars;

預算將達1370億美元;

the third largest highest in the world, behind the military juggernauts

是世界第三大軍事强國

of China and the United States. When compared with other

在中國和美國之後。與其他相比

hypothetical countries that I've come up with in previous episodes of this

我在之前的劇集中提出的假想國家

series, the Neo-Ottoman Empire would match up

新鄂圖曼帝國將建立的非常好。

extremely well. It would a very comperable

這能和强盛時期的西班牙帝國

population to a united Spanish Empire,

的人口數量上杠上

but a much lower economy. The Ottomans would have

但經濟低得多。鄂圖曼人會有

a larger military to begin with than a reunited Mongol

一個比全盛的蒙古帝國更大的軍隊

Empire, but the Mongol manpower base of 1.9

但蒙古人力基數為1.9

billion people would probably cancel out that advantage

十億人可能會令這一優勢消失

pretty quickly. Which ever way you look at it, a reunified

很快。你就算怎麼看它，一個統一的

Ottoman Empire to the borders of 1683 would be a

鄂圖曼帝國到1683年的邊界將是一個

true 21st century greatpower. There are

真正的21世紀强國。

many problems that a modern Ottoman State would face though,

但現代奧斯曼帝國將面臨許多問題，

with territory taken from Russia, The European Union, Saudi Arabia,

與俄羅斯，歐盟，沙特阿拉伯，

and bordering Iran, the Ottoman Sate would face many

和伊朗接壤，讓鄂圖曼帝國將面臨許多外部敵人挑戰

external enemies. In addition to the vast internal

100年前 龐大的領土是一個讓

differences that were part of the reason for the Ottoman Empire collapsing nearly

古鄂圖曼帝國崩潰的原因之一

100 years ago. Could the Ottoman Empire

新鄂圖曼帝國可以在現代世界中

survive in the modern world or would it come crashing down

維持還是崩潰

all over again? Perhaps the best way of answering these questions

重新來過？也許是回答這些問題的最佳方式

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