Just because the alignment of nation and state into nation state happened to innovate around the late 18th century, like the US independence, does not mean that the US is the only nation (state) from that era.
There is not much information density in the idea that “no nation existed for longer than 250 years” when the very idea of nation state is as old itself and nations (or nationes) and states existed for much, much longer than that.
Just because the alignment of nation and state into nation state happened to innovate around the late 18th century, like the US independence, does not mean that the US is the only nation (state) from that era.
There is not much information density in the idea that “no nation existed for longer than 250 years” when the very idea of nation state is as old itself and nations (or nationes) and states existed for much, much longer than that.