Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain

Sections 2-4

Section Vocabulary

• Athens (p. 408)• democracy• pope (p. 412)• Vatican City (p. 412)• Rome (p. 414)• parliamentary monarchy (p. 418)• Madrid (p. 418)• Lisbon (p. 418)

Greece

Greece

• Greece is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations.• Ancient Greeks were artists,

thinkers, writers, and scholars.• Today, Greece is a mix of the old and

the new.• Greece’s capital city is Athens. • 1/3 of the population lives in or

around Athens.

• Greece’s economy has struggled recently. • They have a lack of natural resources.•Only 1/5 of the land can be farmed.• Few mineral resources (gold, coal)• Greece depends on shipping and tourism.

Italy

Italy

• Ancient Rome was one of the world’s oldest and most successful civilizations.• During World War II, Italy was a dictatorship

(autocracy) under Mussolini.• Since WWII, Italy has been a democracy, a

government system in which the people vote for their leaders.• Today, Rome is the capital city of Italy.

• The pope, the spiritual head of the Roman Catholic church, lives on the Italian Peninsula.• Vatican City is a country INSIDE Rome. It

is the smallest country in the world.

Spain and Portugal• Spain and Portugal share the Iberian Peninsula

although they are separate countries. • They both went on to build large empires.• Brazil Portugal• Spain many countries in North & South

America• Spain and Portugal were very rich because of

their colonies. • When their colonies became independent, the

money flow decreased.• Spain and Portugal are poorer than a lot of

European countries today.

• Spanish is spoken in Spain (and most of Spain’s former territories).• Portuguese is spoken in Portugal & Brazil.•Madrid is the capital city of Spain.• Lisbon is the capital city of Portugal.

Lisbon

• Today Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, which means that the king rules with the help of an elected parliament (law-making group).

King Felipe of Spain Spanish Parliment