WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Alps, Europe’s highest mountains, separated the Italian peninsula from the rest of the continent. The Apennine Mountains run north to south along the Italian peninsula. The Apennine Mountains made it difficult for people to cross from one side of the peninsula to the other.

Detailed explanation-2: -Apennine Range, also called the Apennines, Italian Appennino, series of mountain ranges bordered by narrow coastlands that form the physical backbone of peninsular Italy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Alps and Apennines are the two belts in the hangingwall of two opposite subduction zones. In the Alps the European plate subducted beneath the Adriatic plate, whereas in the Apennines the Adriatic, Ionian, Sicily and African plates subducted ‘’westerly”, retreating from the European upper plate.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Apennines are the mountains that run almost the whole length of Italy from Liguria (in the North) to the tip of Calabria (in the South) and even onto the island of Sicily. They are Italy’s equivalent of North America’s Great Divide on a much smaller scale (roughly 1/3).