If a King rules over a Kingdom then a Caliph rules over a what?

What does the author most likely say the time for negotiating with britain was over

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

What were some effects of the viet cong uprising