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Essential Question: What makes a country? Are nation states still the best way to govern in contemporary times?
Essential Question: Is nationalism a blessing or a curse?
Spanish:
Pregunta esencial: ¿Qué hace un país? ¿Siguen siendo los estados nacionales la mejor manera de gobernar en los tiempos contemporáneos?
Pregunta esencial: ¿Es el nacionalismo una bendición o una maldición?
The Nation of Warring Wizards
Simon loves to play video games. He is on a team that plays together online called the “Nation of Warring Wizards.” The team members are from all over the world and two of them only speak Russian but they are very good, so the rest of the team doesn’t mind that they cannot understand them.
Source: Toulouse Game Show
1. Should the Nation of Warring Wizards be considered a nation? Why or why not?
Japan
Japan is a country in east Asia made up of a series of islands. Close to 127,000,000 people live there and 98.5% of them are of Japanese descent. Japan has a long and rich history that started with paleolithic people as early as 30,000 BCE.
Source: Flag of Japan
Image is courtesy of wikimedia commons
2. Should Japan be considered a nation? Why or why not?
Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation is a semi-independent Native American-governed territory covering 27,425 square miles, occupying portions of northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico in the United States. The 250,000 residents of the Navajo Nation have Navajo ancestry and the area is governed by elected representatives.
Source: Navajo Nation map
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3. Should the Navajo Nation be considered a nation? Why or why not?
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