WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rome’s location offered several advantages. One of the advantages was the protection of the hills and mountains found in the peninsula. Two major group of mountains found in Italy were very important on the development of ancient Rome.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the course of centuries Rome grew from a small town on the Tiber River in central Italy into a vast empire that ultimately embraced England, all of continental Europe west of the Rhine and south of the Danube, most of Asia west of the Euphrates, northern Africa, and the islands of the Mediterranean.

Detailed explanation-3: -Italia (in both the Latin and Italian languages; also referred to as Roman Italy) was the homeland of the ancient Romans.