Nationalism and the creation of Italy

Nationalism is a form of the way you represent your country and how your proud of it. It stands for loyalty and respect for its nation. It is the same culture and history a nation of people share the same belief of. The first nation to win independently was Greece. Greece wanted to take its place as an independent state of Europe. The Greeks broke out on 1821 of Ottoman Turks.

In western Europe the congress of Vienna was breaking apart. Many were ruled by Austria others by the pope. The prime minister sent to troops to restore peace and order in Italy. Italy was one of the countries that reformed while the other empires were destroyed. Between 1815 and 1848, numbers grew for italians to no longer be ruled by foreigners.

Italy wasn't always an independent country, it was controlled by Austria and ruled their Italian provinces.In 1832, a young man by the age of 26 Giuseppe Mazzini had arranged a national group called young Italy and the requirements were you had to be younger than 40 years of age. His rebellion failed in 1848 as it did for many other empires. In 1870, Italian forces took over the very last part of the territory known as the papal states, Venice became part of Italy.

Italy also faced many economic problems. The Italian government couldnt handle the economic problems they had been facing with Italy. Italy had entered the 20th century an unwealthy country.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was born in the year of 1783, acc0mplished many things in his life and died in the year of 1830. His accomplishments were very liberating for other countries. He gained independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. He's also known as the liberater and the "George Washington of South America".

Bolivar was born in venezuela in a town called Caracas as a young man he traveled in Europe. He became a patriot of his town to gain independence from Spain. Afterwards, he took command of the patriot army of Caracas and recaptured it in 1813 from Spain. Spain forced Simon to go back from Venezuela and sent Colombia who was in war with Spain at the time, he took command of their force and recaptured Bogota in 1814.

During 1816, he gathered a force from Haiti that landed in Venezuela. He then became a dictator in Angostura. He defeated Spain during 1819, and liberated the territory of colombia. Then he went back to Angostura and became its first president of the original public of Colombia. He had crushed the spanish army on 1821, he also became dictator of Peru and that army had won over the spaniards in 1824. Upper peru had become a seperate state, and it was named Bolivia in his honor.

Simon Bolivar was a man of many accomplishments and victories through his times. He liberated many unindependent countries that spain had been ruling at the time. Peru even named another state after his honor for South America.

The Enlightenment

John Locke inspired many people of the 1800's , many people you wouldn't believe. A lot of them were inspired by his idea many who were known to sign the declaration of independence. The word enlightenment is a word used from western philosophy known as cultural life. John Locke had a strong influence on modern democracy.

The idea of the declaration independence was an inspiration of words of John Locke that Thomas Jefferson enforced. John Locke enforced many ideas but he mostly believed in us knowing things. His protests were limited but it help set a direction for the people. Many citizens adapted
ideas and they applied to all and guaranteed religious freedom.