The Alps are the youngest and highest mountain system in Europe. They stretch across the western and southern part of the continent in a broad arc. The mountain starts near the Mediterranean Sea on the border between France and Italy. Then it curves north and eastward through northern Italy, Switzerland Liechtenstein, southern Germany, Austria and Slovenia. This beautiful landscape is 1000 kilometers (621.371 miles) long and the widest section 260 kilometers (167.149 miles) wide. The Alps became of crucial importance during Roman expansion into the rest of Europe. The Alps have always represented a natural barrier for human migration, army movement, and trade. During crusades many wannabe crusades died of cold and starvation while trying to cross them in order to reach Mediterranean harbors from where they intended to sail to Palestine. Hannibal allegedly crossed the Alps in the
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with an army about a hundred thousand me and including 37 war elephants. Caesar and other Roman leaders went through the Alps often during empire’s expansion. However, the list of armies that crossed the Alps is almost endless and not limited to antiquity. In the Middle Ages, migration through the Alps of entire ethnic groups occurred, when barbarian hordes were looking for a new settlement in Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the antiquity, …show more content…
The Alps are affected by the humid, temperate influences of the North Atlantic in the west and the drier continental influences, with greater seasonal temperature variations, in the east. The Alps form a divide between the climate of central Europe to the north and west and the climate of the Mediterranean to the south. The Alps experience warm, dry, violent winds that blow downward from the mountains into the valleys. These winds melt snow and the ice on the mountainside, often causing
with an army about a hundred thousand me and including 37 war elephants. Caesar and other Roman leaders went through the Alps often during empire’s expansion. However, the list of armies that crossed the Alps is almost endless and not limited to antiquity. In the Middle Ages, migration through the Alps of entire ethnic groups occurred, when barbarian hordes were looking for a new settlement in Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the antiquity, …show more content…
The Alps are affected by the humid, temperate influences of the North Atlantic in the west and the drier continental influences, with greater seasonal temperature variations, in the east. The Alps form a divide between the climate of central Europe to the north and west and the climate of the Mediterranean to the south. The Alps experience warm, dry, violent winds that blow downward from the mountains into the valleys. These winds melt snow and the ice on the mountainside, often causing