Italian_Unification

Italian Unification In the year 1796 Napoleon and his army crossed the borders of Italy, and in three years all country was conquered. French control on Italy had reaching effects and results. The power of the Church and the Pope over society was reduced, changes on landownership were done and the land redistributed among the society. This helped to agriculture’s improvement, as French interest in agricultural products. A new middle class appeared. Communication through the land was improved, new roads were built across the Alps and the Appenines. Italian laws were standardized and new French legal codes of civil and commercial were introduced. The most important among these refreshment process representative government was introduced. Little sovereigns were gathered and Italian boundaries were rearranged. The state was divided into three parts only, as Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy and Kingdom of Naples. All these developments gave a change to the new middle class to discuss on politics, share their opinions and put their thoughts into action. The new social life of Italy gave an encouragement to the idea of Italian nationalism. The idea of unification of Italy was born during italian, unification, italy, piedmont, new, naples, government, troops, risorgimento, rebels, powers, over, italian, control, societies, secret, power, little, king, however, french, elected, carbonari, austrian, aimed, against, after, vienna, took, time, states, state, society, revolutions, revolution, put, parma