Geography of the Italian Peninsula p.7 ? – Flashcards
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Reasons Rome was settled
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Land for farming, rivers bring silt volcanos leave ash = rich soil, hills for defence
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Rome was different from Greece in several ways
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Hills/mountains less rugged, land travel and trade = easier fewer islands lots of land trade
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1000 bc: people began migration to the Italian peninsula. They became know as the ____ who settled on the land south of the ____ river
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Latins, Tiber.
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800 bc: a community started on a hill overlooking the river. Natural resources were nearby: ___, ____, and _____.
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Soil, stone, wood
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Seven hills were easily defended and a stretch of level ground was an ideal place for a _____ or a place where goods and ideas could be exchanged.
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forum
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The community continued to grow with these contributing factors:
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Inland = protection for pirates/15 miles to sea - fish, salt Center of peninsula = trade "all road's lead to rome" (all the little roads branching off of Rome) located on the Tiger river= natures highway
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some distinguishing features are:
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-looks like a high-heel boot -700 miles long, 100 mile wide -"toe" about to kick sicily -100 miles from Africa -Apennine mtns=spine of italy -sea on all sides but north
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North
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The Alps (big mountains)
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ancient roman sewer
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cloaca maxima
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South
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Mediterranean Sea
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East
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Adriatic Sea (in between Greece and Italy)
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West
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Tyrrhenian Sea (above Sicily and west of Italy)
