Question

An activist in 19th century italy is giving a speech he claims that italians all share a language and culture but are divided into too many seperate states he calls on all italians to unite as a single country which of the following insitutions is the activist in favor of forming
A. A nation-state
B. A congress
C. A monarchy
D. A empire

Answer 1

A) A nation-state

A nation state is a state in which the great  majority shares the same culture and is conscious of it. It is a sovereign state of which most of its subjects are united also by factors which defined a nation such as a language  or common descent . It's a more precise concept than "country" , since a country does not need to have   a predominant ethnic group.

Answer 2

The answer is a nation-state