Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Filed under: Greece

How Geography affected Roman Empire compared to Greek civilization.

Geography effects all civilizations. Espically past civilizations, like the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece. For example Rome used geography to expand there empire by traveling by water and land. They also used geography to defeat hannibal by out manuvering him. To out manuver him they used boats to go to Hannibals home and draw him out of Italy and evantually defeat him. So, geography helped the Romans build an empire. Rome's geography also helped feed them because they had fertile land to grow crops and keep them from starving. Geography did not help Greece the way it did Rome. Geography, was a negative part of Greece because mountains caused them to become isolated and create city-states. This was a major disadvantage because not only did it cause them to fight amongst each other, it prevented them from becoming an empire. It did help them sail to islands, but overall geography was a major disadvantage to ancient greece. Also there was not much fertile land as Rome had, so they could not grow a lot of food for their people.