Ancient Rome: Julius Caeser And Octavian

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When most people think of history they probaly think of the past presidents, or maybe intersting geographic features of their country. People don’t often think of history from other places around the world, but if you do, you would find out about the great ancient Romans. To start, the main part of Rome (Italy) was located on one giant peninsula (Apennine Peninsula) and consisted of many rivers and mountains. Also, instead of presidents in ancient Rome, they had dictators, for the most part. Two of the most well known dictators were Julius Caeser and Octavian. Through all this, you can imagine that ancient Rome was one intersting place, both geographicly and socialy. The main land or part of Rome was Italy. Italy was, and still is located

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