Defined the word imperialism. what is your opinion: should the us engage in imperialism? under what circumstances? offer a brief affective argument against the opinion that you hold.

imperialism is a type of government that seeks to increase its size, either by forcing (through war) or influencing (through politics) other countries to submit to their rule. the sun never sets on the roman empire, or so went the saying when rome controlled the majority of europe 2000 years ago.

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.