Western Civilization II / Unit 11 WC2 1002 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Italy in 1850: Austria, the Two Sicilies, the Papal States, and Three Percent
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The idea
Italy had not been one state since Rome. Austria held the north, a Bourbon branch ruled the Two Sicilies in the south, and the pope ruled the Papal States between. Napoleon III's French had dismantled Rome's republic of eighteen forty-eight.
In practice
Under three percent could read Tuscan "Italian", the anchor says.
Where people slip
The witness calls Italy in eighteen fifteen a "geographical expression".
Your place on the trail
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