Unit #5 - Nationalism

• nationalism - collective pride and devotion of a nation/country
• sovereignty - the act of determining independence and freedom of interference from other nations
• unification - to make or bring together several parts of a region/area in to form one country.
• realpolitik - a system of principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological consideration used for the unification of Germany by Otto von Bismarck
• risorgimento - the Italian politics of unification of Italy in the 19th century
• ethnocentrism - the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
• independence - the separating of a colony, region, or area from a mother country to form their own self-government most often by popular sovereignty
• popular sovereignty - the concept that a group of people in a country/area/region/colony should determine their own form of government
• westernization - to make a colony/country/region/area similar to the countries of Western Europe and America
• modernization - to make a colony/country/nation/region/area current politically, economically, religiously, socially, and intellectually (PERSIA)
• Meiji Restoration - the period after 400+ years of Shogun rule in which the emperor (Meiji) was restored to power and opened up trade to other countries and Japan was no longer isolationist
• Tokugawa Shogunate - the feudal period in Japan when the Shoguns (Nobles) ruled instead of the emperor and they isolated Japan from outside trade and influence