Roman Geography
Mountain range in Northwest Italy
What are the Alps?
According to legend this person founded Rome in 753 B.C.
Who is Romulus?
God of the Sea
Who is Neptune?
Rome's location is at the center of this peninsula.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
Sea between Greece and Italy
What is the Adriatic Sea?
Legend of Romulus begins after this Trojan warrior settles in Italy.
Who is Aeneas?
God of War
The Italian Peninsula is famous for having a shape like this.
What is a boot?
Sea between Italy and the Island of Sicily
What is the Tyrrhenian Sea?
Transformed Roman Republic into an empire.
Who is Augustus Caesar?
The goddess of beauty.
The mild climate in Rome made the land ideal for this.
What is farming?
Land of Athens and Sparta... Just southeast of Italy.
What is Greece?
Roman leader assassinated in 44 B.C.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Chief god of sky and air.
Who is Jupiter?
They had this many hills.
What are seven hills?
Continent directly south of Italy.
What is Africa?
Wars between Rome and Carthage, gaining Rome dominance of the Mediterranean.
What were the Punic Wars?
Messenger of the Gods.
Who is Mercury?
River that was near Rome.
What is the Tiber River?