Frodo
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« on: May 31, 2014, 06:56:59 PM » |
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I have noticed people have a very constricted definition of what an empire is, assuming it means direct administrative control over a given territory, not unlike that of the late Roman Empire.
That's only one definition -the other is indirect domination through a web of client and allied states, supplemented by military bases spread throughout the world, some inherited from our British predecessors. It is what one would call a hegemony.
That's us.
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