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Rome, Tenochtitlan, and Beyond: Comparing Empires Across Space and Time

2015; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2610432

1556-5068

Walter Scheidel,

Latin American history and culture

This paper seeks to make a case for expanding the comparative study of premodern empires to include both Old World and New World cases. It explores the utility of concepts such as “empire” and “city-state” for our understanding of ancient Roman and Precolumbian Aztec history. This paper was prepared for the publication of the conference "Altera Roma: art and empire from the Aztecs to New Spain" held at the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA, in May 2010.