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Otherwise known as the Risorgimento, which means "resurgence", the Italian unification was a political and social movement that united the different states of the Italian peninsula into a single nation of Italy in the 19th century.
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THE HISTORY

In the third century BC, Italy was first unified by the Roman Empire. It became an informal extension of the Roman Republic for about 700 years. Since it was protected by Rome, it evaded being converted into a province. It even remained united after the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

This situation suddenly changed during the conquest of the Frankish empire. For this reason, Italy was divided into a system of city-states.

Consequently, the Kingdom of Sicily or the Kingdom of Naples led the Southern region, as established by the Normans. Meanwhile, the Pope governed Central Italy as a temporal kingdom known as the Papal States.

Following the establishment of city-states, the rise of their modern counterparts, known as the nation-states, caused the former ones to decline. Italy, this time, became a site of opposing world powers.

THE RULE

Until the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Italy remained divided into small principalities.

Following this, Napoleon Bonaparte was put into power, and he wanted to conquer the Italian states. He was successful in his agenda after unifying small principalities into one administrative unit. Since the conquest took place during the French Revolution, Italy eventually became part of the French Empire, which was aimed at promoting liberty, equality, fraternity, and people's participation in politics.
Napoleon also encouraged revolutionary ideas and nationalism. He abolished the feudalistic laws introduced by previous empires and established the Code Civil.

The Napoleonic Wars eventually took place around Europe, but Napoleon was starting to fail during this time. This ignited revolutions, including the attempts of Eugène de Beauharnais, viceroy of Italy, and Joachim Murat, who both wanted to control Italy rather than unify it.

THE DIVIDE

After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Italy was split again because of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. It aimed to bring Europe back into power again, thus reversing everything that happened during the previous events mentioned.

This congress attempted to ignore the changes brought by Napoleon, and restore old rulers in their desired positions. It further caused Italy to be divided into different states such as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Parma, the Papal States, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

THE REVOLUTIONS

Since the Congress of Vienna was ineffective, it only created hunger due to crop failures, unemployment, and further suffering of the Italian people. Thereafter, societies pushed for the idea of a unified Italian state. It includes the Carbonari aimed at liberating Italy through revolutionary movements, which was inspired by the principles of the French Revolution.

Giuseppe Mazzini, a member of the Carbonari and the founder of another organization called Young Italy, was one of the most significant figures that led the Italian unification. It eventually attracted the attention of Giuseppe Garibaldi, another known figure in the Italian unification.

As the two leaders joined forces in 1883, they continue to push their ideas. Unfortunately, a failed Mazzinian uprising in Piedmont in February 1834 forced Garibaldi to flee to South America.

Following this was the turmoil of the revolutions in 1848 known as the First Italian War of Independence. The Second Italian War of Independence soon after took place led by Victor Emmanuel II, the third great figure of Italian unification. Later in 1861, Italy was declared a united nation-state under the Sardinian king Victor Emmanuel II.

Although most of the Italian Peninsula was already united at this time, Venice and other Papal States were still far from the ideals of a single Italy. As the Austro-Prussian War broke out in 1886, Italy took this opportunity to capture Venice.

During the Third Italian War of Unification, the Austrian Empire battled against the Prussian Empire, which was already backed by Italy. This war eventually ended in an agreement, leaving all of Italy united.

THE AFTERMATH

The Italian unification was fully completed by the capture of Rome and later by the conquest of Trentino, Friuli, and Trieste at the end of World War I. This was also known in Italy as the Fourth Italian War of Independence.

However, Italy still faced numerous problems even after the unification. Revolutionary ideals never really thrived as the class divide continues.

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Argentina, officially Argentine Republic, Country, southern South America. Area: 1,077,919 sq mi (2,791,810 sq km). Population: (2023 est.) 46,655,000. Capital: Buenos Aires. The people are mostly of European ancestry, especially Spanish, with smaller mestizo, Indian, and Arab populations. Language: Spanish (official). Religions: Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic; also Protestant); also Islam, Judaism. Currency: Argentine peso. Argentina can be divided into four general regions: the North, the Pampas, Patagonia, and the Andes Mountains. The subtropical plains in the northeast are divided by the Paraná River into Mesopotamia to the east and Gran Chaco to the west and north. The Pampas, south and west of the Paraná, is one of the world's most productive agricultural areas and the country's most populous region. Patagonia lies south of the Colorado River. The Argentine Andes include the continent's highest peak, Mount Aconcagua. Argentina's hydrology is dominated by rivers that include the Paraná, Uruguay, and Pilcomayo, which drain into the Río de la Plata. Argentina has a developing economy based largely on manufacturing and agriculture; it is Latin America's largest exporter of beef and beef products. It is a federal republic with two legislative houses; the head of state and government is the president. Little is known of the indigenous population before the Europeans' arrival. The area was explored for Spain by Sebastian Cabot beginning in 1526; by 1580 Asunción, Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires had been settled. Early in the 17th century it was attached to the Viceroyalty of Peru, but in 1776 it was included with regions of modern Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, whose capital was Buenos Aires. With the establishment of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1816, Argentina achieved its independence from Spain, but its boundaries were not set until the early 20th century. In 1943 the government was overthrown by the military; Col. Juan Perón took control in 1946. He in turn was overthrown in 1955. He returned in 1973 after two decades of turmoil. His third wife, Isabel, became president on his death in 1974 but lost power after another military coup in 1976. The military government tried to take the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) in 1982 but was defeated by the British in the Falkland Islands War, with the result that the government returned to civilian rule in 1983. The government of Raúl Alfonsín worked to end the human rights abuses that had characterized the former regimes. Hyperinflation, however, led to public riots and Alfonsín's party's electoral defeat in 1989; his Peronist successor, Carlos Menem, instituted laissez-faire economic policies. In 1999 Fernando de la Rúa of the Alliance coalition was elected president, but his administration struggled with rising unemployment, heavy foreign debt, and government corruption; he resigned later that year, amid antigovernment protests. Under a succession of interim presidents, Argentina experienced one of its worst economic collapses at the beginning of the 21st century. Néstor Kirchner won the 2003 presidential elections and helped to stabilize the economy. Four years later his wife became the country's first elected female president.

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Argentina and its independence from Spain

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