Ancient Rome Lesson 1

The former center of both the ancient Roman Republic and the Roman empire; capital of present-day Italy

An island in the Mediterranean Sea off the southwest tip of the Italian peninsula

Europe's highest mountains, extending in an arc from the Mediterranean coast to the Balkan peninsula

A mountain range on the Italian Peninsula.

A plain on the west coast of Italy on which the city of Rome was built.

A river flowing southward from north-central Italy across the Latium plain, and into the Tyrrheanian Sea.