In the field of non-international relations, hegemony often describes things that have a dominant position, such as the hegemonic party in Satolli's party system theory.
In the Greek-Roman world in the classical European era in the 5th century BC, Sparta was the overlord of the Peloponnesian League (6th-4th century BC). King Philip II of Macedonia was the overlord of the Corinthian League in 337 BC (he passed the kingship to his son Alexander the Great); Athens was the overlord of the Tyrol League (478-404 BC).
Ancient historians such as Xenophon and Foros used "overlord" (? γεμ? The word ν) describes these ancient Greek hegemony.
In ancient East Asia, during the Spring and Autumn Period in China (770-480 BC), due to the weakness of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period ruled China. The five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period were appointed by the feudal main alliance, so they were nominally obliged to safeguard the authority of the Zhou Dynasty over subordinate countries.
The Roman emperor Augustus ended the civil war in Rome with a series of military actions, and then expanded to areas with natural barriers on the basis of the existing borders, and established national borders, which made the Roman state organization change from rapid development to stability, created the ruling hegemony of Rome in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean, and laid the foundation for 1 and the peace and prosperity of Europe, North Africa, Mesopotamia and the Levant in the 2nd century.
From the 7th century to the12nd century, the Umayyad dynasty and later the Abbasid dynasty ruled a large territory, and other countries paid tribute to it, such as the Byzantine Empire.
In India in the 7th century, King Jerzy was the ruler of a great empire in northern India, and he had hegemony in most parts of northern India from 606 to 647. Instead of being ruled by the central government, he left the conquered kings on their thrones and asked them to pay tribute and tribute.
From the end of 9th century to the beginning of10th century, Charlemagne Empire achieved hegemony in France, Italy and Burgundy, and dominated Europe.
hegemonism
Hegemonism refers to a country's policy ideology of controlling other countries' sovereignty, leading international affairs or seeking dominance in the world or individual regions by virtue of its huge political, military and economic advantages.
Hubert vedrine, a French socialist politician, once described the United States as a hegemonic country in the 20th century, but two American political scientists, Mearsheimer and joseph nye Yi, retorted that the United States was not a "real" hegemonic country. Although it exerts great power on other countries, it does not have enough resources to support hegemonism.