Ancient Rome: Powerful In The Ancient World

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Rome became powerful in the ancient world because of its location and government.Rome were able to kept a stable society with the help of written law and Tripartite government .War of expansion and political crises marked the Roman republic.

Italy's geography made traveling hard the mountains.But the climate and soil were perfect to plant and the climate of southern California is similar to Italy it has the same dry summers and mild, rainy winters so it’s perfect to plant citrus fruits, grapes, olives, and to grow grains.Many people in Rome have many different ideas where their city came from two kids named Romulus and Remus in the story the boys were put in a basket and thrown it to the tiber river.But they didn’t drown because a wolf

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