What are ancient Rome's physical features?

Answer 1

1. The Romans were the most powerful people in the ancient world from around the third century B.C. all the way until almost the sixteenth century A.D. That's about 1,700 of dominance. This fact is the most striking and telling of the Romans. They were the top dogs, influencing and controlling the whole western world longer than any civilization that has ever existed. Today, dozens of nations are either seriously influenced by Roman culture, or were directly shaped by its historical weight.

2. The Romans were master "stealers". Their roads wee copied by their northern neighbors during the Roman Kingdom, their toilets and aqueduct technolgoy and all that might have been taken from North Africans, their relgion was stolen from the Greeks, Christianity from the Judeans, military dress from the Gauls, art and education from the Greeks too... you get the idea.

3. They were fighters. Thy conquered the world not because it was a dangerous and scary place where there had to be somebody on top. Few wanted to invade and take the spoils or become "masters of the world" The Romans went far and wide in search of new land to take. Their ability to steal and adapt didn't exclude their military. Theirs was the most technically and tactically advanced army the world would see for ages. They rarely had reason beyond their own ambitions to expand and subjugate unwilling, victimized peoples into slavery and military service and often early graves. One historian said, "Rome created a wasteland and called it peace".

4. The Romans were decadent with their riches. Well, at least their leaders were. Rome, the city, had loads of huge and beautiful monuments dedicated to some victory or god or leader. The Pantheon (an expensive, domed temple built to honor the gods; famous for its freestanding dome), Nero's Palace (a huge, expensive personal mansion he built on the ashes of a section of Rome he burned down secretly), the Colosseum (a super-famous arena where people would fight and be executed in sand for entertainment of the masses), and the Circus Maximus (the largest arena in the world at the time, housing hugely popular chariot races and huger crouds) are just a few examples.

5. The Romans, lastly, believed that it was their duty to do all these things. Every civilization belives that they are the best, of course. But the Romans had a whole history of successes to prove it. They were disgustingly narrow in their views of other peoples and their own place in the world. Their religious persecutions were massive and terribly unnecessary (against Christians especially' Egyptians were an exception, and their religion was honored for its marvelous history). No nations were allies for long, and it was a common fear amongst barbarians all over Eurasia to see a Roman army marching toward their village.

Answer 2

Rome lies in a hilly area. Originally ancient Rome was on seven of these hills. Six of them formed a C shape around a central hill. Rome was also by the only Ford on the river Tiber. As Rome grew into the largest city in antiquity, it expended beyond the seven hill. It included a flat area between a hill north of the mentioned ones and a bight of the river. This area was called campus Martius (Field of Mars) as is now the city centre of the modern city.

Rome also lies between the chain of mountains which runs through the Italian peninsula and the coast, 16 miles from the sea.

Answer 3

If you mean the city of Rome, it lied/lies between the Apennine Mountains, which run along the peninsula north-south and forms its backbone, and the sea. It was/is in a hilly area by the river Tiber. The foundation of Rome was the result of the unification of the peoples who lived in nearby settlements on hills (the Seven Hills of Rome) into a single state with a single ruler (king). In total there are about a dozen hills. The Forum, the Circus Maximus and the port were in valleys between some of the hills. North of the seven hills there is a flat area between the river and the Pincian Hill which the Romans called Camus Martius (Field of Mars) the city expanded into and were landmarks, such as the Circus Flaminius, the Pantheon, the baths of Agrippa and several others, were.

The agricultural land was/is of average fertility. The hills are of volcanic origin and its rock (tuff) provided good building material. The sea is 16 miles from Rome.

Answer 4

Originally, Rome was on the Seven Hills of Rome (the Capitoline, Palatine, Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal and Aventine). Ten it expanded to include other nearby hills. It was on the banks of the River Tiber and between the Apennine Mountains (which form the backbone of the Italian peninsula) and the coast.

Answer 5

Ancient Rome was built on seven hills along the Tiber River in the Italian peninsula, which provided natural protection and fertile land for agriculture. The city's physical features included the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Pantheon, and aqueducts that distributed water throughout the city. The roads, like the famous Appian Way, connected the city to its vast empire.

Answer 6

Had rugged land and marshes.