HIST 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Santa Barbara City College, Syncretism, Coruscant
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Bad: can be motivated by greed, lust for power, can exploit the people they reign. Good: provide safety, security, and peace from warfare. A territorially extensive, hierarchical, multiethnic, political organization w/ strong. Aren"t trying to create uniformity, so religious tolerance is actually more sense of foreignness between rulers & ruled. prevalent. Land and labor vs low and slow. Local elites have a lot of power. They have control the actual people, and land/labor, but bc of low and slow it is hard for the emperor to control the local elites. He has to convince them to do it. Synergistic relationships between imperial systems (army, elites, emperor) are crucial to maintaining an empire. Hegemonic: the core extracts resources from the outside, enriches core at expense of territories, relies a lot on the army to threaten people into listening. Territorial: invests in actual governing. (territorial leaders, so the capitol could.
