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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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