What must be present for a group to be considered a nation?

a. a shared way of doing or collecting things
b. a dominant religion or way of life
c. a common language or symbols
d. a political entity or physical boundaries

What must be present for a group to be considered a nation?

Explanation:

A nation is a human community with certain shared cultural characteristics and that often share the same territory and state.

Some of the characteristics that constitute a nation as such is that the members of one share the same awareness of constituting themselves as a political body differentiated from others based on their cultural coincidences. In general, these coincidences can be ethnic, linguistic, religious, traditional and / or historical. And this is sometimes added to belonging to the same territory.  

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they had freedom from the government and from the affairs