SICILY ITALY V.S. THE UNITED STATED

Sicily Italy vs. the United Stated

Table of Content

Part I: Sicily Italy and the United Stated3

1.0 Introduction3

1.1 Sicily Italy3

1.2 United States3

2.0 History4

2.1 Sicily Italy4

2.2 United States5

3.0 Government6

3.1 Sicily Italy6

3.2 United States7

4.0 Economy7

4.1 Sicily Italy7

4.2 United States of America10

5.0 Artists11

5.1 Sicily Italy11

5.2 United States12

6.0 Currency and Social status14

6.1 Sicily Italy14

6.2 United States15

Part II: Specific 15 Areas16

1.) Palermo- Italy16

2.) Ornate Pizza Bellini16

3.) The Cathedral and the Arab- Norman Palatine Chapel in the Royal Place17

4.) Monreale panoramic views of the Conca d' Oro17

5.) The 12th century Norman Cathedral.18

6.) The village of Mondello18

7) History - steeped Monte Pellegrino19

8.) Palermo-Selinunte- Agrigento19

9.) The Agrigento, the Valley of the Temples19

10.) Agrigento-Pizza Amerina-Caltagirone-Syracuse-Place20

11.) Syracuse20

12.)  The Philosopher Plato21

13.) The Archaeological site23

14.) Syracuse-Catania23

15.) Taormina23

Works Cited24

Part I: Sicily Italy and the United Stated

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Sicily Italy

The island of Sicily (Italian: Sicilia) with its neighboring islands forms a semiautonomous region of Italy. Palermo is the capital. Sicily is separated from the southwest tip of the Italian peninsula by the Strait of Messina. It is otherwise surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Ionian Sea to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the north. It has an area of 25,707 km2 (9,926 mi2) and a population of 5,016,861 (2007 est.). The island is divided into nine provinces: Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, and Trapani. Sicily, the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean, has been settled and ruled by many peoples. Its earliest-known inhabitants were the Elymi, Sicani, and Siculi. From the 8th century B.C., Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Greeks established settlements on the island. In the 5th century B.C. the leading Greek city, Syracuse, established hegemony over the other Greek colonies. These included Agrigento, Gela, Catania, Himera, and Messina. Syracuse faced a vigorous challenge from the Carthaginians, however, who by the end of that century controlled half the island. In the mid-3d century the Romans intervened against the Carthaginians on Sicily, precipitating the First Punic War (264-241 B.C.). (Mack Smith, D., 1968)

1.2 United States

United States is a country located almost entirely in North America, also a state in Oceania. It also has several dependent territories located in the Caribbean and Oceania. Its form of government is a presidential republic and federal levels. With about 305,000,000 inhabitants United States of America is the third most populous country in the world, although it is somewhat far from the first two, China and India. In North America, 49 states are located, of which 48 contiguous continental states in the region between Canada and Mexico. Alaska is in the northeast of North America, separated from the other states by the Canadian territory of British Columbia. The archipelago Polynesian from Hawaii is located in the Pacific Ocean. The federal capital, Washington, is located in the District of Columbia, between the states of Maryland and northern Virginia to the south. (Boyer P.S. (ed.), 2001).

2.0 History

2.1 Sicily Italy

The first people of historical record in Sicily were the Sicans (Sicani), who inhabited the island 11 centuries before ...