7 The unit's comparative close (memorise)

Germany unified by a state (Prussia) — force, diplomacy, a engineered war, federalempire from above; Italy unified by a triangle (prophet-sword-brain: Mazzini-Garibaldi-Cavour) — idealism, volunteer war and diplomacy fused to a throne. Both unifications: the nation-state's 19th-century triumph — and its wars' pedigree (1914's Germany; and the Risorgimento's Rome-the-capital problem). For the law student: unification's legal instruments — plebiscite, treaty, annexation, constitutional extension — the toolkit of state-building Nepal's own unification era (NEH Unit 5) used in its own idiom (lalmohar, treaty, incorporation).