…st powerful participants in world affairs. The nation-state is a modern political phenomenon that arose from the ashes of feudalism during the middle ages. During feudalism, kings didn’t have a tremendous amount of power. Most power was dispersed to the f…Trump Won’t Kill America, Bitcoin Will3K102Brett CenkusPhil WindleyFollowAug 28, 2017 · 1 min readTechnically, nation-states arose from the territorial states of the early 19th century.