The House of Savoy, Guiseppe Garibaldi, Guiseppe Mazzini and Camillo di Cavour were all prominent figures for the unification of Italy. They all had different parts to play for the unification of Italy, whether it was creating or enacting out the plans for unifying Italy, being the whole life and soul of the plan to bring Italy together as one nation, or conquering other regions to force them into joining the Kingdom of Italy. This shows how all of these people had some significance when it came to gathering all neighboring regions and unifying them as one nation, however they were not the main reason that Italy became one nation. Many events had occurred before the unification of Italy in 1871 which showed promises of Italy becoming one nation, …show more content…
Specifically there were previous events, particularly during the ancient times where the regions of Italy had worked together to conquer and/or fend off any neighboring regions, showing promises of these regions eventually joining together under one nation. One example of this is when ancient Rome had worked with other Italian regions such as Toscana and Campania in order to conquer neighboring regions and to expand the Roman Empire. This marked a particularly important point as this showed that all of these regions had some nationalism so while each region hated each other, the nationalism of these regions, as shown when they worked with the Roman Empire, kept these regions together and would therefore lead to the unification of the Italian regions. This event shows that Italian unification was inevitable as it showed the nationalism of each Italian region and that the events regarding Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo Di Cavour as well as the House of Savoy were just a byproduct of the many occurrences when the Italian regions had unified for power against other nations. Italy had worked together multiple times during the ancient period, showing that the unification of Italy was an inevitable occurrence, highlighting how events regarding Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo Di Cavour as well as the House of Savoy were significant for bringing Italy together as one nation however were not the main reason as to why Italy became one nation. Italian unification was an inevitable process given the many times the Italian regions had allied with each other before Garibaldi, Mazzini, Camillo Di Cavour as well as the House of