The SPICE Model In 'Imperium' By Robert Harris

In Imperium, the historical fiction novel by Robert Harris, there are many themes present that are a part of the SPICE model being used for AP World History curriculum. Throughout the book, a number of examples can be identified which demonstrate these themes. To choose three themes to focus on represented in the book, under the development and transformation of social structures there is social and economic classes, for state-building, expansion, and conflict (political) there is political structure and forms of governance, and with the development and interaction of cultures is belief systems, philosophies, and ideas. The first theme is under the “social” generalization and is the existence of social and economic classes presented in the