Show U S Is older as nation than germany or italy As united centralized nations germany and italy are both younger than the united states it was not until 85 years after the american declaration of independence that the modern kingdom of italy was formed by the union ot of various small italian states says the national geographic society victor emmanuel II 11 formerly I 1 king of sardinia was declared its first sovereign sill later by another I 1 decade was the modern german empire cemented together under prussian leadership in 1871 1 first emperor was william I 1 of prussia on the other hand in terms of racial and political history italians and germans both look back on a past many centuries old when the pilgrims landed in new england england rome once ruled an empire from england to the persian gulf including the mediterranean and the countries that rimmed it the had their innings in the holy roman empire of the middle ages when their domain stretched from the baltic and north seas to the mediterranean and half halfway way down the italian boot |