Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Being a nationalistic is just being proud of your country. But there are holidays that expresses your nationalism. For example: In America there is Easter, July 4, ETC. There are maps that represents the own country. Every information about the country is on the map. By 1871, Europe was remapped with the rise of two newly united nations - the Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire. The unification movements of both countries took place at roughly the same time in the mid-19Th century and were motivated by the same historical trends - that of liberalism and nationalism. The following discussion presents a comparison of the two unification's. Before the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte, both Italy and Germany shared some similar features. Italy was divided into a number of separate states which were ruled by despotic kings. Yet the Italians shared a common language and a common history - the Roman Empire. Many still had memories of the ancient unity and glory.Italy has been the home of many European Culture, such as the and the Romans, and later was the birthplace of the Universitys and of the movement of the Renaissance, that began in Tuscany and spread all over Europe. Italy's capital Rome was for centuries the center of Western Civilization ; it also spawned the Boraque movement and seats the Catholic Church . Italy possessed a colonial empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.