Social Studies SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS(3 Mark)

Culture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation :
i. The shaping of nationalist feeling and its expression was helped by art and poetry, stories and music.
ii. Romantic artists and poets generally strongly criticised reason and science in their glorified forms.
iii. The emphasis on vernacular language and the collection of local folklore, recovered an ancient national spirit, as well as carried the modern nationalist message to large audiences that were mostly illiterate.

It can be said that nationalism, aligned with imperialism, led Europe to disaster in 1914, because of the following reasons:
i. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, nationalism no longer retained its idealistic liberal democratic sentiment of the first half of the century but became a narrow creed with limited ends.
ii. Nationalism aligned with imperialism led Europe to disaster in 1914. But, many countries in the world which were colonised were in a very bad shape.
iii. During the period an intense rivalry among the European powers emerged over trade and colonies as well as naval and military might. This led to a series of wars in the region and final the First World War.