WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hispania (Latin: Hispānia [hɪsˈpaːnia], Spanish: [isˈpanja]; nearly identically pronounced in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Italian) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces.

Detailed explanation-2: -The city of Rome itself is built on a series of hills, including the Palatine, Capitoline and Aventine. In ancient times they were more distinct and steeper, but over time and as building and development increased, the hills smoothed and melded into one another.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rome’s location on the Italian peninsula, and the Tiber River, provided access to trade routes on the Mediterranean Sea. As a result, trade was an important part of life in ancient Rome.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands.