Define nation, state and nation-state. What is the difference between them? Before the modern state, how were political entities divided in Europe, Latin America, South America and Asia?

What led to the rise of the modern state?

What is a boundary? How does it generate conflict?

What are the advantages of large states? Small states?

What are the different types of physical boundaries?

What is colonization? Why did people want to colonize? Explain how the Scramble for Africa and colonization led to boundary disputes.

Why and how do states cooperate with one another? Give examples.

Explain how 18th Century imperialism in Africa led to a series of border disputes and separatist movements today among different cultural groups.

Question 1: A nation is a group of people who see themselves as a cohesive and coherent unit based on shared cultural or historical criteria. Nations are socially constructed units, not given by nature. ... A Nation-State is the idea of a homogenous nation governed by its own sovereign state—where each state contains one nation.

Question 2:  

South Sudanese parade their new flag shortly before the referendum in January. 2011 that Americans use government and state interchangeably, but “govern- from other types of political entities: a claim over territory, external and internal , Prior to approximately 1500, Europe consisted of feudal states

Explanation:

The sentence is an independent clause because it is formed in a way to express a complete and whole thought. An independent clause includes a subject and a verb, as well as expresses a full thought with feelings attached. If it were a dependent clause, it would not contain a working verb and subject.

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