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Rome L.1
Ancient Rome Vocab. Lesson 1
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Rome | The former center of both the ancient Roman Republic and the Roman Empire; capital of present-day Italy. |
Sicily | An island in the Mediterranean Sea off the southweastern tip of the Italian Peninsula. |
Alps | Europe's highest mountains, exstending in the arc of the Mediterranean coast to the Balkan peninsula. |
Apennine Mountains | A mountain range on the Italian peninsula. |
Latium | A plain on the west coast of Italy on which the city of Rome was built on. |
Tiber River | A river flowing southward from north-central Italy across the Latium plain, and into the Tyrrhenian Sea. |