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**surefireinvest** · 07-01-2008, 04:56 AM

Maybe I'm idealizing the ancient guys a bit but I'd be much more critical to the post-1500 types of imperialism with those vast colonial empires. I just don't see how the big colonial powers really integrated those from African or Asian colonies successfully into their own population in the way for example Romans did manage to deal with their former enemies in many cases (and finally giving out the status as Roman citizen to all free inhabitants of the empire).

US doesn't count IMO since the colonials here weren't really natives that had to be integrated in a completely different political and cultural environment since they already had (often) a cultural background similar (or even the same) to those from the colonial powers when they arrived in the new world.

07-01-2008, 04:56 AM	#3
surefireinvest Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	Maybe I'm idealizing the ancient guys a bit but I'd be much more critical to the post-1500 types of imperialism with those vast colonial empires. I just don't see how the big colonial powers really integrated those from African or Asian colonies successfully into their own population in the way for example Romans did manage to deal with their former enemies in many cases (and finally giving out the status as Roman citizen to all free inhabitants of the empire). US doesn't count IMO since the colonials here weren't really natives that had to be integrated in a completely different political and cultural environment since they already had (often) a cultural background similar (or even the same) to those from the colonial powers when they arrived in the new world.
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