Ancient Rome's Structure & Monuments

Geographic Structure-

Ancient Rome was built on seven hills at the bank of the tiber river. It is around the centre of the Italian peninsula. Italy had many hills and mountains but were easier to travel over than the mountains on Greece.... Most of the land around Ancient Rome was also fertile allowing the Romans to farm. Most of the rivers around Rome were shallow so they easy to cross. Since the most water was shallow around Rome, the romans were not master sailors as the Greeks were and they became easy targets for pirates.

 

Area Of Land-

The Ancient Roman Empire expanded to become one of the largest empires 

in the ancient world, still ruled from the city, with an estimated 50 to 90 

million inhabitants and covering 5 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles)

25 BC  (BC- Before Christ)	2,750,000  (1,060,000 sq mile)

117 AD  (AD-Anno Domini) (In the year of the Lord)	5,000,000 km2 (1,900,000 sq mile)
390 AD (AD- Anno Domini) (In the year of the Lord)	4,400,000 km2 (1,700,000 sq mile)

Name of The Mountains in Ancient Rome-

• The Vatican Hill 
• The Pincian Hill 
• The Janiculan Hill 
• The Sacred Mount 
• Aventine Hill
• Caelian Hill
• Capitoline Hill
• Esquiline Hill
• Palatine Hill
• Quirin Hill
• Viminal Hill      

Roman River-

The Tiber River:

Ancient Rome was built on the swiftly flowing Tiber River. The Romans called it Father Tiber. They loved this stream that watered their land, joined the city with the sea, and helped to protect them from invasion. Yet sometimes disastrous floods rushed over the river’s banks. Even today the Tiber sometimes overflows, though great flood-control embankments have lessened the danger.

Famous Cities in Ancient Rome-

• Vatican City

In the middle of Rome, lies the Vatican City, a tiny independent state and center of the Roman Catholic Church....The Vatican City is small – less than ½ square mile. The city holds the Vatican Palaces. 

• Alba Longa

Alba Longa (in Italian sources occasionally also written Albalonga) was an ancient city of Latium, founder and head of the Lantin Confederation; it was destroyed by Rome around the middle of the 7th Century BC.

• Deva Vitrix

Deva Victrix, or simply Deva, was a legionary fortress and a town.