Why did italy surrender in wwii

Italy, under Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, had allied itself with Adolf Hitler from 1936 and joined World War II in June 1940. ... The Germans reacted so swiftly when Italy surrendered that the Allies were able to gain little advantage from their surprise invasion of the mainland.

that’s true, tatiana prouskouriakoff established that the inscriptions were primarily historical.   they recorded events in the lives of mayan rulers and their families.

b. parliament was weaker than the monarchy.