Ideas about world order

Proposition: It can be argued that ideas about world order were often implemented in creating specific imperial policies and that the leadership envisioned themselves as the gatekeepers for that order. Those ideas were frequently given form in imperial performance practices and material form in the built environment: e.g., urban design, architecture, tomb design, infrastructure, landscape, and public graphical expression. Discuss how ideas about world order played into imperial policy and material practice with respect to at least two of the three regions treated in the second half of the course: Qin/Han, Aztecs, Inkas.