HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Assimilation
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Imperialism: the practice or advocacy of empire building images of an empire: mongol empire, the roman empire, the british empire. Elements and ideals of civilization and western imperialism: Empires have a centre and a periphery, the centre is often often called the metropolis (ex. rome for the roman empire) The control the empire actually had over its territories varied and was often minimal. The ideal of continual growth: you stop expanding, you will perish (most empires shared this ideal) Imperialistic claims are universalist claims: assumptions of normative superiority -others should be like us . Ambition of universal norms, especially in politics and economics - shared worldwide. Light burden of control - when norms are shared, less imposition of governance is needed. Globalization: interconnectedness in the worlds" systems of various sorts. The process in which human societies normatively converge and become more like each other (culturally, politically, economically, intellectually etc ) The process through which the worlds societies become more interconnected.
