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The Geography of Rome
1. Label the map of "The Topography of Ancient Rome" as indicated below:
bodies of water [blue]:
Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea
rivers [blue]:
Po, Tiber, Rubicon
mountains/peaks [brown]:
Alps, Apennines, Mt. Etna, Mt. Vesuvius
islands [green]:
Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily
cities [red]:
Rome, Ostia, Syracuse, Carthage, Pompeii, Brindisium, Tarentum
peoples [purple]:
Latins, Gauls, Etruscans, Greeks
other [black]:
Magna Graecia
2. What natural/geographic advantages did the city of Rome have?
3. How was Rome's geography different from that of Greece? How was it similar?
4. Why was Ostia important to the city of Rome?
5. Why do you think that the Romans could unify their peninsula and the Greeks could not?
6. According to Roman mythology, how was Rome founded? What was the real story?
7. What did the Romans borrow from the Etruscans?
8. Why is 509 BCE an important date in Roman history?
9. Define the term "republic."
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