What is the country that had colonized the most continents?
The U.K.
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What is a nation-state?
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.
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Why is Denmark a good example of a nation-state?
Almost all Danes speak Danish and almost all speakers of Danish live in Denmark.
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What is the time period the U.N. was created.
At the end of WWII.
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What is the largest state?
Russia.
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What is 1 reason that people would want to establish colonies elsewhere in the world?
To promote Christianity
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To extract useful resources and to serve as captive markets for their products
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TO establish relative power through the number of their colonies
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What is a multinational state?
A country that has more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determinism.
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What are two good examples of nation-states?
Denmark and Slovenia.
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How many members did the U.N. have when it started?
It had 51 members.
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How many republics were in the Soviet Union?
15 republics.
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What is the time period that most West African and Southeast Asian colonies became independent?
After WWII.
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What is a city-state?
A sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.
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Why is Slovenia a good example of a nation-state?
83% of the population of Slovenia is made up of Slovenes. Also, nearly all of the 2 million Slovenes make their bed in Slovenia.
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What is the basic job of the U.N.?
To keep peace among nations.
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Azerbaijan has been in constant conflict with who?
Armenia.
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When did the Colonial era begin?
In the 1400's.
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What is Self-Determinism?
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
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Which of the five groups of the former Soviet Union is made up of three nation-states?
European State.
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What is the year(s) the U.N. gained the most members?
1990-1993
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Why did most colonies keep close ties with France after gaining independence?
France had its colonies follow the French culture.
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Why did the British say that the "Sun never set" on their empire?
Because their empire was spread across every continent.
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What is colonialism?
An effort by one country to establish settlements in barely inhabited territory and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory.
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Why have ethnicities pushed to create nation-states?
Because they desire to have the right of self-determination.
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What are the members of the U.N. Security Council?
China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Why did Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia not last?