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Evaluating the Effects of the Geography of Italy Geography Of Name: Date: Evaluating the Effects of the Geography of Italy Warm up writing space: Review: What are some geographical features that made settlement in ancient Greece difficult? Write as many as you can. Be able to explain why you picked them. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Give One / Get One Directions: • You will get 1 card with important information about Rome’s or Italy’s geography. Read and understand your card. • Record what you learned as a pro or a con on your T chart. • With your card and your T chart, stand up and move around to other students. • Trade information with other students. Explain your card to them (“Give One”), and then hear what they have to say (“Get One.”) Record their new information to your T chart. • Repeat! Geography of Italy Pros J Cons L Give one / Get one cards (Teachers, preprint and cut a set of these cards for each class. If there are more than 15 students in a class, print out a few doubles. It’s okay for some children to get the same card.) The hills of Rome Fertile volcanic soil 40% Mountainous The city-state of Rome was originally Active volcanoes in Italy (ex: Mt. About 40% of the Italian peninsula is built on seven hills. Fortifications and Etna, Mt. Vesuvius) that create lava covered by mountains. important buildings were placed at and ash help to make some of the the tops of the hills. Eventually, a land on the peninsula more fertile. city-wall was built around the hills. Peninsula Mediterranean climate Tiber River Italy is a narrow peninsula—land Italy, especially the southern part of The Tiber River links Rome, which is surrounded by water on 3 sides. the peninsula, has a moderate, slightly inland, to its port in the Mediterranean climate. Summers Mediterranean Sea, and to cities are hot and can be dry. Winters can further north. In order to expand the be a little mild with more city of Rome to both sides of the precipitation. river, the Romans had to build several bridges. Other Rivers Alps Mountains Apennine Mountains Italy includes many other rivers The Alps Mountains cut across the The Apennine Mountains are a group besides the Tiber, including the Arno, top of Italy. Due to their height, the of smaller mountain chains running the Po and the Rubicon. tops of some Alps can have snow and down the length of Italy. They are glacier coverage even in the summer. mostly green and grass covered. There are some passes through the Alps, but even the lowest is at about 3,200 ft. Many Italian neighbors The Etruscans The Greeks The Romans were not the only The Etruscans were an ancient The Greeks settled colonies in the ancient group to be living on the civilization settled in the northern southern part of the Italian peninsula, Italian Peninsula. There were many part of the Italian Peninsula. They bringing with them Greek culture. other Italian city-states around it, and excelled at architecture and art. many of them in the beginning were larger than Rome. Carthage Mediterranean Sea The Latium Plain Carthage was a city-state on the Italy is located near the center of the The Latium Plain was where Rome north coast of Africa. It was settled Mediterranean Sea. Other was settled. It had flat, fertile land. there by the Phoenicians, who civilizations with access to this sea excelled at trade. Carthage expanded include the Egyptians, the Greeks, its empire and grew to dominate and the Mesopotamians. much of the western Mediterranean area. T chart – Teacher exemplar of possible model answers Geography of Italy Pros J Cons L • Building on multiple hills can create multiple • 40% mountains suggests that there is farmland fortresses, multiple lines of defense to be had on Italy, but as population grows, • Fertile land can help the Romans acquire a more farmland may be needed outside the surplus of food peninsula. It may take effort to find, travel to, • Peninsula offers plentiful sea access for fishing, and hold this additional territory. trade, and travel. • The Peninsula is narrow – overall, not much • Multiple rivers means multiple sources of fresh land, and therefore not much land to create and water and fertile land in the river valleys. maintain a surplus of food. • Mild climate can support farming. • Getting out of Italy through the Alps is more • Tiber River can be used for fresh water and difficult. transport of goods and people. • Many neighbors on a narrow peninsula can • Alps Mountains provide a natural defense create competition for land. against enemies attempting to enter Italy by • A powerful nearby neighbor like Carthage can land. claim important resources and possible expand • Apennines create some more defense but are into Rome’s territory. not impossible to farm on. • Neighbors can create opportunity for trade and resources. • Nearby Etruscans and Greeks can teach the Romans some of what they know / share cultures. • Central position in the Mediterranean Sea gives Rome many other nearby civiliZations to trade with. • Flat land is the easiest to farm on. Name: Date: Practice – Think like a conqueror Now that you know more about the geography of Italy… 1) How did the land and water of Italy help the ancient Romans to expand their territory? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.) What about the land and water did they have to overcome to expand? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Date: Ticket to Leave – Put your name on this! What 3 geographic features do you think helped the ancient Romans the most? List them AND explain why you picked them. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Date: Ticket to Leave – Put your name on this! What 3 geographic features do you think helped the ancient Romans the most? List them AND explain why you picked them. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Date: Ticket to Leave – Put your name on this! What 3 geographic features do you think helped the ancient Romans the most? List them AND explain why you picked them. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Date: Rome Geography Challenge Directions: What is Strabo’s attitude towards Rome? How does he get this across in a text that’s supposed to be about geography? Annotate textual evidence of Strabo’s opinion in the white space as you read. Then summarize at the end. Excerpt from Strabo’s Geography, Book V Chapter 3 All Latium is blest with fertility and produces everything, except for a few districts that are on the seaboard — I mean all those districts that are marshy and sickly… or any districts that are perhaps mountainous and rocky; and yet even these are not wholly untilled or useless, but afford rich pasture grounds, or timber, or certain fruits that grow in
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