According to Anderson, what was the purpose of the museum,
map, and census?

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Accepted Answer

For
colonising powers to quantify and survey their newly acquired domains.

Answer

To
be used in military strategy to navigate foreign territories, identify enemy
numbers, and catalogue pillaged goods.

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For
the people living within a nation to better understand their own land, history,
communities, and culture.

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They
were a natural progression of the Age of Enlightenment’s development of the
sciences to fully understand both the natural and human worlds.

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