If you take the 10 countries that went on to become the Western empires, in 1500 they were really quite tiny -- five percent of the world's land surface, 16 percent of its population, maybe 20 percent of its income.
서양제국의 지배를 받았던 10 개국을 살펴보면, 1500년에는 굉장히 적었습니다. 지구의 5%의 토지에, 인구의 16%, 아마도 20% 의 소득에 불과했죠