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== Real Life == |
== Real Life == |
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* [[Older Than They Think|The earliest example]] would be the [ |
* [[Older Than They Think|The earliest example]] would be the [[wikipedia:Delian League|Delian League]] of city-states c.477 B.C., making this one [[Older Than Feudalism]]. The League was even the [[Trope Namer]], since the position of leadership within the league was referred to as "hegemon". This hegemon, to nobody's surprise, was [[Ancient Greece|Athens]], to the point where the League was often called the Athenian Empire. |
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* The United States of America is often considered as this by scholars. |
* The United States of America is often considered as this by scholars. |
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* Very much [[Truth in Television]]; third-world countries that were part of European colonial empires qualified as well. |
* Very much [[Truth in Television]]; third-world countries that were part of European colonial empires qualified as well. |
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* Some of the most effective Empires start as this according to some historical theories. And even while empires they often have what might be called a "penumbra", a sort of sphere of influence in which their culture is either admired or just accepted because everyone else seems to. |
* Some of the most effective Empires start as this according to some historical theories. And even while empires they often have what might be called a "penumbra", a sort of sphere of influence in which their culture is either admired or just accepted because everyone else seems to. |
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** The predilection among many countries to have imitations of Greco-Roman culture such as "democracy", "senates", and so forth is an example of this. |
** The predilection among many countries to have imitations of Greco-Roman culture such as "democracy", "senates", and so forth is an example of this. |
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* Related to this is a fairly popular idea in international relations, [ |
* Related to this is a fairly popular idea in international relations, [[wikipedia:Hegemonic stability theory|hegemonic stability theory]], the gist of which is "hegemonic empires create institutions and stability that often outlive the hegemon, unlike direct empires." |
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