Ever since the fall of Rome, Italy had been more or less disunited for centuries. But could this be changed? Can the 19th century Italians break free from the system layed out by the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich? Find out in this thrilling brand new Background History video!
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SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

• Instagram:   / back.groundhistory  
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MUSIC AND SOUND CREDITS

Title card and chapter music by Matthijs Rooks, check him out!
http://matthijsrooks.nl/


"La Marseillaise" by United States Navy Band via https://www.navyband.navy.mil/'>https://www.navyband.navy.mil/
"Funiculi Funicula remix" by RedmuffleR via   / duce  
"Take a Chance" by Kevin MacLeod via https://incompetech.com/music/
"Radetzky March" by United States Navy Band via https://www.navyband.navy.mil/'>https://www.navyband.navy.mil/

Sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com/
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SOURCES

⮞ Books:
• Davis, A. ed., Italy in the Nineteenth Century (New York, 2000)
• Nieuwenhuis, W., De Vuist van Piemonte: De geschiedenis van de eenwording van Italië (Amsterdam, 2014)
• Palmer, R.R., J. Colton & L. Kramer, A History of Europe in the Modern World (New York, 2014)
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IMAGE AND MAPS CREDITS
Texture for the background from: https://3djungle.net/textures/​​

⮞ Images:
• Age of Empires collage:
https://gamerant.com/ageofempiresr...

• Paradox games collage:
https://www.gamespace.com/allarticle...

• Total War collage:
https://altarofgaming.com/alltotalw...

• Emblems of the Carbonari and Freemasons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Emblem of the Roman Republic based on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...


⮞ Maps:
• The base map is based on OpenStreetMap:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/

• Various snapshots from Italian history based on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Napoleonic Europe:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...


• Italy in the 19th century:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• County of Savoy:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Ottoman Empire:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

• French Algeria:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Prussia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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Hashtags: #history #italy #italianhistory #unification #1848 #sardinia #piedmont #19thcentury #vatican #austria #france #sicily #nationalism #rome #garibaldi
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00:00 Intro
00:35 Background
03:17 Age of Restoration
07:27 How to Italy?
11:17 Springtime of Nations