Define nation, state and nation-state. What is the difference between them? Before the modern state, how were political entities divided in Europe, Latin America, South America and Asia?

What led to the rise of the modern state?

What is a boundary? How does it generate conflict?

What are the advantages of large states? Small states?

What are the different types of physical boundaries?

What is colonization? Why did people want to colonize? Explain how the Scramble for Africa and colonization led to boundary disputes.

Why and how do states cooperate with one another? Give examples.

Explain how 18th Century imperialism in Africa led to a series of border disputes and separatist movements today among different cultural groups.