Rise of the nation states
In mosopotamia
Mesopotamia - The beginnings
One city or tribe would gain dominance and form an empire from time to time.The empires organized in succession were by the Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians.
Roman Empire
One city or tribe would gain dominance and form an empire from time to time.The empires organized in succession were by the Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians.
The Roman Empire
Sumerian Hyrogliphics
Babylonian and Assyrian Art
Feudalism
The portion of the Roman Empire in Europe was broken into a number of estates, which were owned by kings, dukes, barons, and other nobles who competed against each other. Nobles fought in order to seize control of estates and after nobles would die, others would fight in order to take their previously owned land. People would be forced to live on an estate where they would fight and work for their noble’s benefit.
Formation of Nation States
Much of central Europe, but most notably present-day Germany and Italy, remained fragmented into a large number of separated estate. They were not combined together into states until the 19th century.
Vocabulary
Nation - a group of people with a strong sense of cultural unity.
State a.k.a Country - an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
Nation state - a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
Sovereignty - independence from control of its internal affairs by other statesCity state - a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.