Show U U. S. S Is Older as Nation Than Germany or Italy As united centralized nations Germany and Italy are both younger young young- er than the United States It was not until 85 83 years after the American Declaration of Independence ence that the modern kingdom of ol Italy was formed by the union of ol various small all Italian states says say the National Geographic society Victor Emmanuel II formerly king of Sardinia was declared its first sovereign Still later by another another an an- other decade was the modern Getman German Ger Get man empire cemented together under under un un- der Prussian leadership In 1871 First emperor was William I ol of Prussia On the other hand in terms cl of racial and political history Italians and Germans both look back on a past many centuries old when whan the Pilgrims landed in New England Rome once ruled an empire from England to the Persian gulf includIng including Ing the Mediterranean and the countries countries coun coun- tries that rimmed It The the Roman Roman Ro Ro- had their innings in Holy man empire of the Middle ages when their domain str stretched from the Baltic and North seas to the Mediterranean and halfway way do T dO wi withe the Italian boot |