if your family is related to the royal family in spain, how are you 100% italian?? oh wait i forgot, spanish people are italian!
Ok, so when the bookstudy mentioned this week how there were empires that ended after world war one, this was one of the major three it was speaking of..
Aw, you guys don't have history buffs in your bookstudy? At mine we got all into it- naming different nations that we new of. I just took Modern Western Civ this past semester so I remembered a lot of stuff.
A lot of the great empires were around until WWI- that's when they finally crumbled. However, before that they had been on the decline ever since the French Revolution which was truly the start of the people trying to force a democratic system upon monarchies.
After WWI the map of Europe was re-drawn like a kid with crayons. Whole empires were dissolved and new nations were formed based on groups of people (and cultures) instead of just this monarch wanted that land. So, the Ottoman Empire (which was truly still the remnant of the Holy Roman Empire) was dissolved. The Austria-Hungary Empire was dissolved. Poland came out of nowehre. Germany became a nation instead of part of an Empire. Crazy stuff.