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| The former center of the ancient Roman Republic and the Roman empire, capital of present day Italy |
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| An island in the Mediterranean Sea off the southwest tip of the Italian peninsula |
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| Europe’s highest mountains, extending in an arc from the Mediterranean coast to the Balkan peninsula |
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| A mountain range on the Italian peninsula |
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| A plain on the west coast of Italy where the city of Rome was built |
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| A river flowing southward from north central Italy across the Latium plain, and into the Tyrrhenian Sea |
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| Legendary founders of Rome brought up by wolves, helped grandfather become king |
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| Roman general who defeated Hannibal in the Battle of Zama outside Carthage in North Africa |
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| the general of Carthage who marched his army from Spain to Rome in the second Punic War |
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| A series of conflicts between Rome and Carthage in the 200’s B.C. ending in a victory for Rome |
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