Question

“Like Germany, Italy too had a long history of political fragmentation”. Explain.​

Answer 1

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(i) Like Germany, Italy too had a long history of political fragmentation.

(ii) Italians were scattered over several dynastic states as well as the multinational, Habsburg Empire.

(iii) Even the Italian language had not acquired one common form, and it still had many regional and local variations.