Brainlies -what were the effects of italy’s unification? -what were the effects of germany’s unification?

Italy:

Prior to unification, Italy was a collection of city states with a wide range of identities. The biggest effect, other than Italy speaking with one national voice, was a significant rise in nationalism. Italy went from not being unified to being rabidly proud of Italy and quite nationalistic.

Germany:

Basically the same. Germany unified under Bismarck and a rabid cult of nationalists was created that glorified Germanic influences in the world. Germany became a strong unified military power backed by rabid nationalism.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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