Geography+of+Rome

**Geography of Rome**  Learning Targets: Students will apply their knowledge of geography to find and identify the advantages and disadvantages or Rome's location. They will be able to explain how geographical features affected Rome.

**Rome started off on 7 Hills - take a look at them and read a little bit about each one here.** media type="file" key="Santa Sabina View Movie.MOV" A movie-view from Santa Sabina in Rome. You can see the various hills ... and I point to St. Peter's in the distance. Just in case you were wondering about that random event. __**Go to school fusion and answer the following questions in a post:**__ 1. When Rome was just a city of hills, what geographical advantages and disadvantages did it have? 2. As Rome expanded, it conquered new territory with different geographical features. What features would you see as you traveled around the empire? What would the Roman government have to do to account for these different geographical features.
 * Eventually, Rome would expand to become a large, vast empire that took over many countries with different geographical features. Take a look at this map to see its empire. Then, compare it to the physical map here.**  