You could say the same about Germany where there's also huge regional differences (even bigger ones due to religion). It's very hard to imagine European and wo

You could say the same about Germany where there's also huge regional differences (even bigger ones due to religion). It's very hard to imagine European and world history without a united Italy. Italian unification success was one (albeit not the primary one, which was the rivalry with Austria) major source of pressure on Prussian elites [1]. We look at history at very abstract level, but in 1861/62 Prussian newspapers were all into "look at how Cavour did in Italy, unlike that incompetent Bismarck". [1] https://alg.manifoldapp.org/read/contested-visions-the-history-of-western-civilization-from-1648/section/21f81dd9-2e0f-4f78-a024-6e093cb534b7 https://alg.manifoldapp.org/read/contested-visions-the-histo...