ABSTRACT
Just as there is a subtle relationship between the physical realties of geography and the ideas which men hold about what the world is, or should be, about, so there is a relationship between the actual process of domination and the ideas which men have held as to its purpose. There have been two sides to the condition of dominance as it has affected the inhabitants of the territories dominated. The positive one is that it has brought order to the culture area by reducing internecine conflicts within it and establishing an overall system. The negative side to this is that the power of the dominant state within its territories is largely unbridle. It is the state which itself determines the nature of this power. Its twin bases are the Castle and the God, the former the physical expression of the existence of power and the latter the higher justification for the exercise of it.
