Defines the nation as an imagined political community – and imagined as intrinsically limited and sovereign. It conceptualizes the imagined community as a population of people who identify as part of a nation but who may not all know each other. It then provides a historical analysis of nations. List three factors whose disappearance slowly opened the way for nations and nationalism. 1) A writing language that has played an important role in transnational solidarities such as Christianity and Islamic speech. 2) The divinity or cosmological basis of monarchies that required people's loyalty3. 3) The conception of temporality in which cosmology and history were indistinguishable. These elements slowly declined first in Western Europe and later spread globally. He then provides a list of the basic principles that fuel nationalism. 1) Press and capitalism; it created connectivity and promotion of languages ​​other than the holy ones and people understood the languages ​​they did not speak, thus creating solidarity between large groups. 2) Impact of the reform; the process first initiated by Luther and strengthened by the press and capitalism created another means to communicate and mobilize the masses. 3) The slow and gradual replacement of the local vernacular with Latin and other sacred and administrative languages ​​such as Arabic, which changed the gravitation of power from central empires to localities, thus leading to a new wave of local power centers and