Question

Unification of italy

Answer 1

UNIFICATION OF ITALY

• During the middle of the 19th century , Italy was divided into 7 states of which only one , sardinia peidmont was ruled by an Italian princely house .
• The north was under Austrian habsburgs , the center was ruled by the pope and the southern regions were under the dominance of the bourbon kings of Spain .
• After the failure of revolutionary uprisings , the responsibility fell on sardinia peidmont under its ruler KING VICTOR EMMANUEL II to unify the Italian states through war .
• In 1860 , they marched into south Italy and the kingdom of two Sicilies  and succeeded in winning the support of the local peasants in order to drive out the Spanish rulers .
• In 1861 VICTOR EMMANUEL II was proclaimed the king of the united Italy .

Answer 2

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) During the middle of the nineteenth century, Italy was divided into seven states, of which only one, Sardinia-Piedmont, was ruled by Italian princely house.

iv) The north was under Austrian Habsburg, the centre was ruled by the Pope and the southern region were under the domination of the Bourbon kings of Spain.

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