What makes a city, Roman?
The aqueducts.
The fountains
The command of the high ground and the water.
Good plumbing to move fresh water in and waste water out.
Skillz.
Valuable skillz
Built with stones
Planned by cartographers and engineers
Military knowledge
When one attempts to define something, invariably one is searching for a single word or concept that is the most POWERFUL within the paradigm. Command of a people requires command of a thing that controls the people.
Control of the water
Control of the food
Control of access to the mine
Control of the lying ass advertising media
Control of the interest rate
Control of the markets
Control of the raw materials
Control of the sources and methods
Controls of the suppliers
Control just requires an inflection point
Religion is control of mind, of situational design, of the aire. Command of the air is a DOMAIN (dominion)
GODS/DEMIGODS are domains, each controlled by a defined parameter or aspect.
Except the Universal Power of the force and source of life and creation and acceptance of all that is, has been, or will be as vastly superior ENTITY to any one specific aspect or parameter of the whole.
It all horrible and beautiful and necessary.