Italian city states

>italian city states
BASED
>united italy
Completely incompetent in all aspects

Someone explain to me how this happened

South Italy is shit.

The same reason why South Korea won't be unifying with North Korea anytime soon. No one wants to willingly cripple their economy for decades.

basically this, but to add on, but by the 19th century, the Mediterranean became less relevant for trade as the north atlantic took over european trade

Explain West/East Germany

what fucking question do you think you're answering?

The Italian city states were already in decline for centuries. Napoleon really exposed the collective weaknesses of an italy divided into mutually opposing polities.

"So what we'll do is take completely isolated and vastly different cultures,linguistics and practices based on specific isolated regions and force them to cooperate somehow effectively." t. spaghetti

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At least in west Germany they had a chance