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The Geography of Italy and the Mediterranean: Why Rome Rose Where It Did

The Geography of Italy and the Mediterranean: Why Rome Rose Where It Did

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Geography set the stage for Rome long before any king or legion marched across it. In this opening episode we trace the Italian peninsula’s boot-shaped silhouette, its towering Alps and Apennines, and the broad Po Valley that fed its first cities, then step back to see how Italy’s central position in the Mediterranean turned a land of farmers into future masters of “our sea.”

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