The Importance of Empire in the Eurasian Stuff

Empire is a highway both out and in. It absorbs the local stuff into the center, and it pushes out this new version of the local stuff,. which it brings together in the melting pot of the metropolis. So an imperial culture is produced, which then has local qualities in it, but also influences the local. This is the key concept in my view of how to teach the Eurasian stuff.