1. Ethnicity and Conflict Rise of the Nation State

2. What is Race? Genetic coding in a persons DNA Reflects ancient migrations patterns and splits that occurred through evolution, 100,000 years ago. –Black –White –Asian

4. What is Ethnicity? Shared –Political attitudes –Cultural traits Religion Language Songs Clothing Housing –Ex. Hispanics, African Americans, Asian

5. What is a Nation? Group of people who share legal attachment and cultural traditions. –Voting –Passports –Civic Duties

6. Is the USA a Nation? Noodle it out and discuss.

7. Same/Different Homogeneous vs. Heterogeneous

8. European History Empires (Pre-Industrial thinking) –Land = Agriculture + People + Resources –More Land = More Wealth –Wealth = Power Fight wars Buy support Allegiance is locally based Serf->Lord->King Small Kingdoms struggle for power and few can sustain a large territory like the Romans.

9. Nation States Boundaries are drawn according to the ethnic groups desire for self-determination. Borders begin to solidify in the 19 th Century

10. Europe 1812 Some Nation States

11. Who’s missing?

12. Europe 2012 (Nation-States)

13. What’s the difference? Nation States Empires

14. Denmark, Nation State? (Text Book Example) Yes –1,000 plus years of History –Language –Food –Vikings!!! No… –Faroe Islands –Greenland (6 Military guards with the worst job in the world)

15. Mr. Lauritzen’s Danish Family

16. Germany, Nation State? Native Speakers Borders Is Germany a Nation State? Should it be bigger? Hitler-Lebensraum

17. Genocide What do we know about that word?

18. Latin Anyone? Geno- Blood Cide- Killing Genocide- Blood Killing Genocide is "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.”in partethnicracialreligious Tough part- What constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide?

19. Yugoslavia 1988 Soviet Block State Multiple Ethnicities Held together by Soviet Force Breaks up in 1988

20. Civil War or Genocide?

21. Balkan Ethnicities

22. Balkan States 2012

23. Multiple-Nation States Russia –39 Nationalities –20% Non Russian –Independence Movements –Russians Abroad How does it stay together?

24. Test Case…

25. Ottoman Empire (Old thinking) (In French)

26. Iraq Post WWII (Colonial Boundaries)

27. Saddam Hussein Gains Power in 1970’s Nationalizes Oil Iraq/Iran War Gulf War I- Attempts to unite with Kuwait by force. Defeated by Bush Sr.

28. 2001 2006

29. Iraqi Ethnicities

30. Conflict? Exit Ticket Make a prediction about the future of Iraq Use your vocabulary from today –Ethnicity –State –Multinational-State –Genocide –Heterogeneous