Why is there a huge difference between North and South Italy?

There are historical reasons for the great difference between northern and southern Italy:

1. Greece is the earliest civilization to set foot in Italy, which is distributed in southern Italy. Rome is the earliest indigenous civilization in Italy, which originated in central Italy. Greece and Rome are essentially agricultural civilizations.

2. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the remnants of Rome and Greece occupied central and southern Italy for a long time, which was mixed with some Arab elements; Germanic tribes occupied northern Italy for a long time and later became part of the Holy Roman Empire.

3. The rise of commercial cities in the Middle Ages originated from Shenluo and the southern coastal areas of France, such as Venice and Genoa. At that time, the scuffle between the feudal lords of Rome, Byzantium and south-central Italy led to the decline of underdeveloped commercial cities and eventually became agricultural city-states.

4. After Renaissance, Great Navigation, Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, northern Italy, together with Italy, Britain and France, transformed the traditional superstructure and became the core area of modern western social system.

5./kloc-In the second half of the 9th century, the kingdom of Sardinia, which originated in Liguria (the northwest coast of Italy), unified Italy on the basis of northern Italy, and naturally began to vigorously build industrial zones in northern Italy.

6. Today, northern Italy is an industrial area, while central and southern Italy is an agricultural area.