NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
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Heroism
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Freedom
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Slavery
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Unity
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Detailed explanation-1: -Germany’s oak-leaf crown symbolises the honour of bravery and velour that represented the people of Germany who were ruled by foreign forces.
Detailed explanation-2: -Since the earliest ties between humans and oaks, a very strong symbolic image of oaks has developed in which these trees have become associated with longevity, strength, stability, endurance, fertility, power, justice, and honesty.
Detailed explanation-3: -Germania wears a crown of oak leaves. Germania became the allegory of the German nation.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Greek mythology, the oak is the tree sacred to Zeus, king of the gods. In Zeus’s oracle in Dodona, Epirus, the sacred oak was the centerpiece of the precinct, and the priests would divine the pronouncements of the god by interpreting the rustling of the oak’s leaves.