They would have been Genoese or Sicilian or Veronese. At any rate, all the stereotypes we have of these national identities that Italians talk with their hands, that Germans have extremely punctual public transport, are quite new because in 1850, most Italians wouldn't have called themselves Italians. What's that? Oh, our script supervisor Zulaiha informs me that I am that old. Now, I know that I am old, but I'm not that old. We tend to think of Europe's nation states as static and long-standing, but one of my great-grandfathers was born before Italy became a unified country. So, if you look at Europe today, you'll note that two of the European Union's largest economies, Italy and Germany, have not existed as unified kingdoms or sovereign states during our first 26 episodes. Hi, I'm John Green and this is Crash Course: European History. Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Thanks to the following patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever:Įric Prestemon, Sam Buck, Mark Brouwer, Indika Siriwardena, Avi Yashchin, Timothy J Kwist, Brian Thomas Gossett, Haixiang N/A Liu, Jonathan Zbikowski, Siobhan Sabino, Zach Van Stanley, Jennifer Killen, Nathan Catchings, Brandon Westmoreland, dorsey, Kenneth F Penttinen, Trevin Beattie, Erika & Alexa Saur, Justin Zingsheim, Jessica Wode, Tom Trval, Jason Saslow, Nathan Taylor, Khaled El Shalakany, SR Foxley, Sam Ferguson, Yasenia Cruz, Eric Koslow, Tim Curwick, David Noe, Shawn Arnold, William McGraw, Andrei Krishkevich, Rachel Bright, Jirat, Ian Dundore

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You'll learn about Guisseppe Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuelle, Otto von Bismarck, Wilhelm I, and a whole heck of a lot about the development of modern politics. Today we'll look at how Italy and Germany pulled it together in the second half of the 1800s. So, we haven't talked much about Italy and Germany so far in Crash Course Euro, and that's because prior to the mid-19th century, those two nation-states weren't really a thing.

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