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Before 1871 there was no Italy or Germany.Indeed this were only geographical entities of various small independent states, but by 1871 both the kingdom of Italy and the empire of Germany were united. Even though both countries used popular trends to that time, both liberalism and nationalism, the process unifying these two countries was very different. Italy's problems started with the fact that it didn't have one main ruler, but two people and a concept, resulting …

…had failed. In Italy the propertied classes and the common people were divided. A great social and cultural gap still divided the north and south. "Italy was unified politically, but other divisions remained." Germany, on the other hand was completely unified. It had become stronger than Italy. It strenght was all neccesitated by the ingenious mind held by Bismarck and it was through him that Germany became one of a european power of the time.