As the major powers of Europe began to globalize through the emergence of strong

As the major powers of Europe began to globalize through the emergence of stronger centralized nations and increasingly large empires, their expansion created many questions and issues, many of which still linger today. Among these issues that linger in modern thought is the question of historic artifacts and cultural memory. Over the next several hundred years, many of the artifacts that represent the cultures and peoples of earlier eras, for example the Greeks and Egyptians, were removed from their original homelands and brought back to the conquering western power. Sometimes these artifacts were considered the “spoils of war,” and other times they were willingly given to the powerful nations; either