As the title suggests, what is the earliest possible point that the Italian people could be unified under one nation?
Earliest possible united Italy
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Well if Otto fails to conquer it and Germany and France are at each other's throats too much to press claims, 961
Sicily isn't necessary, though it is preferable for Sicily to be included.
Either Ladislaus of Naples or Joanna II, both of whom were members of the Neapolitan branch of the House of Anjou, married one of the members of influential Tuscan merchant families (either the Medici, Albizzi or even the Bonsignoris of Siena)...
Earliest POD? I mean another user mentioned Rome, which does count in a sense.
I concur. The easiest possibility is for Medieval Italy never fracturing at all. So a surviving Ostrogothic Kingdom is a good possibility.
Or post-Justinian Byzantine Italy, with a shorter and less destructive Gothic War.
Since the question wasn't when it actually happened, but how much earlier could we make it, perhaps one way to interpret the question is as whether the reforms resulting from the Social War (which I would myself accept as creating a united Italy) could possibly have been implemented earlier. Maybe if the first or second Punic war drags on even longer than historically and the Romans get desperate for more sources of loyal men?
Po Valley becomes a cradle of civilization, first agrarian empire spreads down the peninsula in 4000 BC
Madeleine Birchfield
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Alexander's empire spreads West instead of East and he incorporates the Italian peninsula into his empire.