well, this is for french school:
History of the italian peninsula:
Rome is created
they conquer gauls (and a few other countries with no importance) grrrr bad romans
Fall of the romans (Franks beat them. Yay!! First defeat in a long row for italian, still according to french history books)
Renaissance (well, the period of Lorenzo de Medicis, Machiavell, ) Francois I of France beat some italian ass
Napoleon conquer some italian territory (again kicking italian ass)
People's spring (we study germany and bismarck on the one hand, Italy and Garibaldi-Cavour-V.E.R.D.I., note the fact that only bismarck is truly study for germans instead of the whole three for Italy. I might add, that IIRC, Garibaldi is not presented as a military man, but more as a politician. Stupid french school)
WWI: well, italian wanted Dalmatia and didn't get it
Totalitarism in Europe: Hitler, Staline and Mussolini. Benito is presented as the less worse of the three, but he's definitely not a good man.
WWII: Italian did pretty much nothing (understand never really get into action, they weren't innocent), get their ass kicked and even return their shirt at the end...
Study of Modern days: Italia can be resumed to FIAT, Mafia and tourism.
As you see, that's pretty simple and somewhat oriented. For a lot of people in France, Italian people can be considered as a brother for French people: we may have some fight from time to time, but we love each others (whereas English people, not scots, irish or welsh, i mean english people are considered as our best ennemies. We are allies, but that's just a brain thing, not a heart thing. get my point?)
these are just generalities, of course and
1) may not be taken as holy truth
2) may not be representative of my own thinking
3) are french common ideas of what french people think (i know you are surprised, but we think, that's true!!!)
Conclusion:
You, Italian people, may be surprised by what i've done or choose, beeing the leaders, the city list (thanks Wiki for that, most of the cities I know are historical or Football city, sometimes both, and when you have 18/20 clubs with some cities like Roma, Milano or Torino with two of them, it begins difficult) or the UU (that i definitely like, this is truly a flavoured UU, not a boring put-the-name-of-a-civ-here warrior/cavalry/infantry/marines) so if you have suggestions, i'm very glad to look at them. However, i will look carefully before changing something to another one that I don't know, because if i don't know something, there are surely other people that doesn't!!!
That is the balance between Culture and Knowledge. Garibaldi is culture for me (and common french people), Giolitti would be Knowledge if i knew it. Now, if you really think that something is wrong (Garibaldi instead of V.E.R.D.I.) i may do that.
By the way, I really appreciate all your comments. I really learn a lot of things (looking at Giolitti on Wiki at the moment)
EDIT: since there isn't anything about Giolitti neither on french nor english wiki, if someone can light this guy for me a little, i would be thankfull.
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