It's a game, sometimes there is a cultural connection, sometimes geographic and sometimes none, but we can try to assign each civ a country.
he expressed is rather natural human curiosity about past, be it your own or someone elses and its connection to present.
, but c'mon how wouldn't you pick modern-day India for Indians...
hmmm...teutons and goths are still unclear to me.
Problem with nation is, that anglophone/francophopne world has very different perception of nation compared to germanophone/slavophone world. That is why terms like e.g. ethno-nationalism appeard in political/academical discourse, to represent such distinction. But since many of those terms appeared or become mainstream in political discourse after WWII, they carry negative connotations.As you dive deeper into history, it becomes quite clear this concept of a nation (unity of ethnicity, culture, religion, language and region) isn't new, but rarely correct: