HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Aeneid
Document Summary
A notional geographic entity with exible borders and proclivity for expansion that places an extensive group of people and/or territories under a single supreme authority. Traditional empire backed by military power: ex. Background: a village > conquered neighbors > more territories > all of europe/known world: known europe: no knowledge of africa, asia, america, australia, etc. Referring to rome (a city in the middle of italy [founded in 753 bce], originally a tiny city-state) Roman (and ancient rome) can refer to the roman empire, the vast collection of territories. A broad legal, political, cultural category: process of romanizations (the way you became inducted of the roman. Empire you were adopted into the culture, legal system) and grants of citizenships (right to be tried under certain conditions, Roman imperial conquest was relatively generous in its treatment of defeated groups: gradual induction of conquered elites into imperial power structures. Tacitus: debates between gauls should be allowed in the roman senate.
