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Rome Geography Worksheet
1. Label the map of "The Topography of Ancient Rome" as indicated
below:
bodies of water [blue ink]:
Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea
rivers [blue ink]:
Po, Tiber, Rubicon
mountains/peaks [brown ink]:
Alps, Apennines, Mt. Etna, Mt. Vesuvius
islands [green ink]:
Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily
cities [red ink]:
Rome, Ostia, Syracuse, Carthage, Pompeii, Brindisium, Tarentum
peoples [purple ink]:
Latins, Gauls, Etruscans, Greeks
other [black ink]:
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."