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Rome Begins!

WHAT IS ROME?

COUNTRY CONTINENT

STATE TOWN

CITY OCEAN

REGION EXTINCT

WHERE IS ROME???

Italian Peninsula

SIMILAR TO OTHER CIV…

Major River

**Tiber River**

Similar to Greece:

Depend on Sea

**Tyrrhenian Sea**

**Mediterranean Sea**

DIFFERENT THAN OTHER CIVILIZATIONS…

1. Have BOTH Sea and River

2. NOT a country

Perfect Location

• 1600 people came to live along the banks of the Tiber River on the Italian Peninsula.

• Italian Peninsula shoots out of Euope into the Mediteranean Sea.

• Looks like a about to kick Sicily

Italy Forms a bridge between….

Western Europe

Northern Africa

Western

Asia

Why a perfect Location?

1. Along a

2. Near a

3. Located within Hills-Protection from:

Legend of Rome Beginning…

Romulus and Remus

• What other story does this remind you of?

Rome Learns from Other Cultures…

Because of Rome’s Location, What was able to sail into Rome’s Harbor’s?

Significance…

1. Unload Cargo into Rome. **Easy**

2. Pick up stuff from Coast. **Easy**

3. Romans meet people from other cultures. **Easy**

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Farming.

Climate

**Along the Tiber River ideal for Farming:

-Grapes

-Olives

**Three-Fourths of the land is Hilly

**Western Coast very fertile

**Warm and Moist most of the year.

Rome’s Rise…

Rome grew and prospered=more people wanted to be a part of it.

**Etruscans took over Rome

--Skilled laborers: Aqueduct

What is an Aqueduct???

Junius Brutus

• Led Rome against the Etruscans and Defeated them.

***Marked beginning of a GLORIOUS PERIOD in Roman History.***