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I'm starting this week just over two thousand years ago, with the great empires of Europe and Asia
兩千多年前，歐亞大陸出現了幾大帝國：
empires whose legacies are still strongly felt in the world today-the Roman Empire in the West, the Empire of Ashoka in India, and the Han Dynasty in China.
西方的羅馬帝國，印度的阿育王朝和中國的漢朝。直到今天，它們巨大的影響力仍未消亡。
In this age of great rulers, I'll be looking at how power is constructed and projected.
這些帝國的權力是如何構建完成并行使的呢？
Military might is just the beginning-you might say it's the easy part.
軍事實力僅在帝國建立初期發揮作用，而武力征服通常也是最容易完成的一部分。
How does a ruler stamp his authority on the very minds of his subjects?
統治者如何才能把自己的權威烙印在臣民的頭腦里？
As always, images are more effective than words, and the most effective of all images are those that we see so often that we hardly notice them.
在這方面，圖像往往比文字有力得多。而最有效的圖像便是貨幣上的，這是人們時常接觸但又不會太注意的東西。
The ambitious ruler shapes the currency: the message is in the money.
野心勃勃的統治者鑄造了錢幣，將信息記載其上，就算本人早已離開人世，錢幣上的信息卻能長存。
