I Italian and German unification had many similarities amongst each other. However, significant players in both nations paths to a unified state had very different approaches to unification. Modern Italy owes its foundation most of all to the Camillo di Cavour. Before his time the Italian peninsula was made up of scattered independent states. Giuseppe Mazzini inspired the Italians to make the peninsula one kingdom. Giuseppe Garibaldi was the great military hero. Cavour, a nobleman, …showed first 75 words of 1078 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1078 total…and everything that they take up. they do not feel that they can be conquered or defeated. they have absolute confidence in their actions and their beliefs. They want to spread and spread and spread until the whole world is conquered by the imperialist forces and they possess "the world" They are motivated by land and wealth in this aspect. In that time of imperialist expansion it was the "supreme danger of modern national states."