Should U. S. actions in world affairs around the turn of the 20th century be praised or condemned?

i would say it is the roman empire europe after the norman conquest.

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.