Rise of Nationalism in Europe Introduction
Question: Who was Fredrik Soureu?
Answer: A French artist.
Question: How many series of paintings did Fredrik Soureu draw?
Answer: Fredrik Soureu made a series of 4 pictures.
Question: What words was made up of Fredrik Soureu’s A World of Dreams?
Answer: from “Democratic and Social Republics”.
Question: Which people are shown in the picture of Fredrik Soureu?
Answer: People of North Europe and America.
Question: Whom are all the people worshiping in the picture of Fredrik Soureu?
Answer: the Statue of Liberty.
Question: What is in the hands of the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: In one hand the torch of enlightenment and in the other the Declaration of Human Rights.
Question: What are scattered on the ground in front of the statue?
Answer: The demolished remains of post-autocratic institutions.
Question: What is the name of Fredrik Soureu’s imagination?
Answer: Utopia.
Question: How can the people of the world be recognized in Utopia?
Answer: from their clothing and national dress.
Question: In the portrait of Fredrik Soureau, by whom can France be recognized?
Answer: France can be recognized by the Revolutionary Tricolor.
Question: What is absolutism?
Answer: Such a government or system of governance, which has no control on its power, is called autocracy.
Question: Who is called autocratic government?
Answer: Governments that were highly centralised, based on military force and repressive. In history they have been called autocratic government.
Question: What is Kalpanadarsh (Utopia)?
Answer: Kalpanadarsh (Utopia) is the vision of a society which is so ideal that it is almost impossible to realize it.
Question: Who are the people behind France in Fredric Soureau’s portrait?
Answer: The people of Germany are behind France in the portrait of Fredrik Soureu.
Question: How are the people of Germany recognized in the portrait of Fredrik Soureu?
Answer: The people of Germany hold a black, red and gold flag.
Question: What was the condition of the German people at the time of the painting of Fredrik Soureu?
Answer: By this time the German people had not become part of a single United Nations.
Question: What is the expression of the flag held in the hands of the German people?
Answer: The flag held in the hands of the German people is an expression of the liberal hopes of 1848.
Question: What does the upper part of Fredrik Soureu’s portrait represent?
Answer: Heaven is shown above in this picture from where Jesus Christ, saints and angels are setting their eyes on this scene.
Question: In what way did Fredrik Soureu use Jesus Christ, saints and angels in his painting?
Answer: Fredrik Soureu has used these as a symbol of brotherhood among the nations of the world.
Question: Which one emerged in place of the multi-national dynasty empires of Europe?
Answer: The Nation-State.
Question: When did nation-state and nationalism come into existence in Europe?
Answer: Nation-states and nationalism came into existence in late 19th century Europe.
Question: Who was Ansert Rennan?
Answer: Ansert Rennan was a French philosopher.
Question: In which university did Ernst Rennan deliver his lecture?
Answer: at the University of Saubon.
Question: In which famous essay was the lecture of Ernest Rennan published?
Answer: ‘What is a nation?’
Question: Which idea does Ernst Rennan criticize?
Answer: Ernst Rennon criticizes the idea that nations are made up of a common language, race, religion or region.
Question: What is a nation according to Ernst Rennan?
Answer: According to Ernst Rennan, the nation is a large and comprehensive unity, its existence is a daily referendum.
Question: What is a referendum called?
Answer: A direct vote by which all the people of a region are asked to accept or reject a proposal is called a referendum.
Question: What if there is only one law and only one master in the world?
Answer: In this situation freedom will be lost.
French Revolution and the Idea of the Nation