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The Geography of Ancient Rome
Label the map of "The Topography of Ancient Rome" as indicated below
Feature Color Name
WaterAdriatic Sea Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian Sea
Po River Tiber River Rubicon River
Mountains/PeaksAlps Apennines
Mt. Etna Mt. Vesuvius
Islands Corsica Sardinia Sicily
CitiesRome Ostia Syracuse
Carthage Pompeii Brindisium Tarentum
PeoplesLatins Gauls
Etruscans Greeks
1. What natural/geographic advantages did the city of Rome have?
2. How was Rome's geography different from that of Greece? How was it similar?
3. Why was Ostia important to the city of Rome?
4. Why do you think that the Romans could unify their peninsula and the Greeks could not?
5. According to Roman mythology, how was Rome founded? What was the real story?6. What did the Romans borrow from the Etruscans?
7. Why is 509 BCE an important date in Roman history?
8. Define the term "republic."
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