Resurrection
Because: it means your back to life from death
The best and correct answer would be It was in an area of the world that emperors did not want to conquer. This is a strong country with brave emperors which the other countries do not want to deal with.
The dominant culture is (and also gets referred to as) "majority culture", that is the leading culture of the majority people in some place.
The "other", smaller culture is refereed to as:
-subculture
-subordinate culture
-non-dominant culture
-minority culture