What Made Rome Great?
What Made Rome Great?
Rome is an empire that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, and with an abundance of reasons as to what made it great, Cicero believed that the perfect location chosen by Romulus, that truly made Rome great. When building the Capital of an empire there are several factors to take in. Defence, distance from the sea, and more defence. The Rutuli people, were of concern to the Romans as they had comparable wealth and power. Building the city just north of Rutuli territory, over the hills and not by the coast made it “easy..to take with forces at his command, either by invading the territory of the Rutuli or of the Aborigines, or by... founding a city at the mouth of the Tiber.” The Tiber river runs through Rome into the north of the country. The basin of the river was inhabited by aboriginals, whom the Romans avoided battle with by settling away from the mouth of the river. The thought of an attack on the Rutuli's was proven true, as they took over the Rutulis in 6th century BC. A trend that Cicero noticed was that city’s built close to sea “ was not the most advantageous for cities to enjoy provenance and imperial sway, chiefly because the maritime cities are exposed to dangers both numerous and impossible to foresee.” Being closer to sea gave Rome many more unexpected dangers. Distance from the coast protected Rome from simple natural disasters such as storms, high tide, floods etc. But also gave them more foreseeable attack against enemies. As appose to being able to dock and invade, enemies of the empire would have to trench through kilometres of rough mountainous terrain in order to attack. Giving the Romans plenty of time to plan and react to the situation. He was saying how being close to the coast made it so much harder to enjoy being the most powerful, and to listen to what the state says because they would be in so much more fear due to the unforeseeable dangers. “A city surrounded on all sides by land
Rome is an empire that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, and with an abundance of reasons as to what made it great, Cicero believed that the perfect location chosen by Romulus, that truly made Rome great. When building the Capital of an empire there are several factors to take in. Defence, distance from the sea, and more defence. The Rutuli people, were of concern to the Romans as they had comparable wealth and power. Building the city just north of Rutuli territory, over the hills and not by the coast made it “easy..to take with forces at his command, either by invading the territory of the Rutuli or of the Aborigines, or by... founding a city at the mouth of the Tiber.” The Tiber river runs through Rome into the north of the country. The basin of the river was inhabited by aboriginals, whom the Romans avoided battle with by settling away from the mouth of the river. The thought of an attack on the Rutuli's was proven true, as they took over the Rutulis in 6th century BC. A trend that Cicero noticed was that city’s built close to sea “ was not the most advantageous for cities to enjoy provenance and imperial sway, chiefly because the maritime cities are exposed to dangers both numerous and impossible to foresee.” Being closer to sea gave Rome many more unexpected dangers. Distance from the coast protected Rome from simple natural disasters such as storms, high tide, floods etc. But also gave them more foreseeable attack against enemies. As appose to being able to dock and invade, enemies of the empire would have to trench through kilometres of rough mountainous terrain in order to attack. Giving the Romans plenty of time to plan and react to the situation. He was saying how being close to the coast made it so much harder to enjoy being the most powerful, and to listen to what the state says because they would be in so much more fear due to the unforeseeable dangers. “A city surrounded on all sides by land