American gun-makers are some of the first pioneers,
美國制槍者中就有些先驅采用大規模生產
Making the 1861 "Springfield" Rifle musket.
如1861年的斯普林菲爾德步槍的制造
A decade later, the iconic colt .45.
十年后45口徑柯爾特式自動手槍亦如此
If I can mass produce a bunch of these things,
若能在短時間內盡可能多地生產武器
I'm going to be able to win a lot of battles very quickly.
就能很快獲得更多戰役的勝利
Armed with the crossbow,
憑借著弩這一裝備
The armies of the first emperor storm across 6 warring kingdoms.
秦始皇的軍隊迅速統一了六國
In just 9 years he conquers more than a million square miles.
短短九年時間他征服了一百萬平方英里的疆域
27 million people.
和二千七百萬人民
China's first historian writes:
中國的第一位史學家記載道:
"His armies devour the land"
他的部隊像蠶食桑葉一樣
"Like a silk worm eats a mulberry leaf."
征服了一片片疆域
"Nothing will stop them."
"他們勢如破竹無人可擋"
The first emperor of China put an end
中國歷史上的第一位皇帝
to hundreds of years of states warring against one another.
為數百年的戰國時期劃上了句號
By unifying China, he unified what is, quote/unquote,
通過統一中國 他統一了所謂的
all under heaven, all creatures under heaven.
"一切 統一了世間萬物"
And this victory symbolized
這次統一標志著
the concept of the birth of China.
中國的誕生