| Term | Definition |
| In the middle of the ninettenth century the movement towards unification was underway in both of these countries | Italy and Germany |
| Advances in these areas assisted these developments | transporation and communication |
| examples of small fragments of nations | tuscany and hanover |
| Multi-ethnic empires | Russia, Austria, Ottoman lands |
| new nations states where characterized by | shared history and identity, common language, rejection of foreigners, founding of government on popular will |
| rulers sought the need to engage in this of their citizens to successfully build a nation state | loyalty; support |
| unification was through this path | war |
| this war was the first to be covered by newspaper correspondents | crimean war |
| because of this woman, the medical services provided was greatly transformed | Florence Nightingale |
| the crimean was helped weaken these countries | Austria and Russia |
| was broke out against these countries from a long history of mutual hostility | russia and the ottoman empire |