because of its fish and animals who lived their and also the water that was their helped them
By the time the Empire reached its greatest extent, Rome controlled the entire coastline of the Mediterranean.
Rome's location in the Mediterranean area (though it was not actually on the coast of this sea) meant that Rome's first imperial expansion occurred around the Mediterranean Sea. She took over all the areas around its shores.
Rome is the capital city of Italy, and Italy sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Romans called the Mediterranean mare nostrum (our sea) because the had conquered all the lands around this sea and the Mediterranean was the heart of their empire. The Roman themselves were Mediterranean people. Rome is only 16 miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is part of the western Mediterranean.
Carthage.
Rome's location in the Mediterranean area (though it was not actually on the coast of this sea) meant that Rome's first imperial expansion occurred around the Mediterranean Sea. She took over all the areas around its shores.
It is the Mediterranean Sea. Rome was, and still is, in the Mediterranean Sea.
It was near it, but not touching it. Egypt was touching the Mediterranean Sea.
Tyrrhenian Sea
ROME is in Italy and by the Mediterranean Sea.....
Rome and Carthage are separated by the Mediterranean Sea.
Rome's location in the Mediterranean area (though it was not actually on the coast of this sea) meant that Rome's first imperial expansion occurred around the Mediterranean Sea. She took over all the areas around its shores.
Ancient Rome was built on seven hills, but was nowhere near the Mediterranean sea proper. Rome was/is relatively inland and its nearest sea is the Tyrrhonian sea which could be loosely called an arm of the Mediterranean.