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Some individuals think nationhood is as old as civilization itself. But also for anthropologist, historian, and political scientist Benedict Anderson, country and nationalism are products of the communication technology of the era known as the present day age, which began in 1500. Following the invention of the printing press around 1440, common local dialects gradually substituted Latin as the terminology of print. Standard people could now show ideas of their own. Later, they could gain access to the important appearing ideas of the Enlightenment amount of the 17th and 18th centuries. The wider option of maps, on the other hand, first broadened people's capacity to see themselves as part of something beyond their immediate locality - as part of "imagined neighborhoods," or nations. Subsequently, these imagined neighborhoods then constructed the theory that there were "others" beyond their nation's edges. While most scholars believed that nationhood started in Europe, Anderson showed how, in truth, nationhood first emerged among Western european descendants in the Americas. The scope and perspective of imagined neighborhoods made a sustained impression in the field of nationalism studies.
