All empires need to justify themselves. Even if you take the cynical view that they principally exist to extract resources and make money, eventually people need to buy into them to keep them going. The trouble with building elaborate mythologies to make sense of something that exists is that eventually the thing you built the mythology to justify
Britain's Legacy of Empire
Britain's Legacy of Empire
Britain's Legacy of Empire
All empires need to justify themselves. Even if you take the cynical view that they principally exist to extract resources and make money, eventually people need to buy into them to keep them going. The trouble with building elaborate mythologies to make sense of something that exists is that eventually the thing you built the mythology to justify