GEOGRAPHY
↑Britannia↑
Germania
Helvetia
Other Impt.
Places:
Gallia
Hispania
Mauretania
Pontus Euxinus
Delos
Italia
Delphi
←Tiber River
Mycenae
•Roma
Troy
Olympia
•Brundisium
Mesopotamia Olympus
Sardinia
Asia Minor
Pyrenees
Macedonia
Sparta
Achaea •Athenae
Syria
Carthago• Sicilia
Phoenicia
Creta
Mare Nostrum
Iudaea
Africa
Alexandria• Arabia
Cyrenaica
←Nile River
Aegyptus
Important Places in Italy
Mountain Regions/Mountains
-Aetna
-Alpes
-Apennine Mts
think Apennine..like a spine
Cities/Roads:
-Roma
-Ostia (Rome’s seaport)
-Pompeii/Mt Vesuvius/Capua/
Herculaneum/Stabiae
-Brundisium (seaport on the heel)
-Neapolis
-Via Appia
Bodies of Water:
-Mare Tyrrenum
-Mare Hadriaticum
-Mare Nostrum
-Mare Aegeum
Important Rivers
-Tiber
-Arno
-Po
-Rubicon
Actual National Latin Exam Geography Questions
______1. Which body of water lies between Greece and Italy?
a. Baltic Sea
b. Adriatic Sea
c. Atlantic Ocean
d. Black Sea
______2. Quae īnsula est proxima Italiae?
a. Crēta
b. Dēlos
d. Cyprus
c. Sicilia
______3. What body of water lies between Italy and Greece?
a. Atlantic Ocean
b. Adriatic Sea
c. Black Sea
d. Red Sea
______4. When Theseus sailed from Athens to Crete, in what direction did he travel?
a. north
b. south
c. east
d. west
______5. Magna Graecia, an area of Greek colonization, was located in
a. Gallia
b. Italia
c. Hispania
d. Helvētia
______6. In which general direction did Julius Caesar travel through Italy on his way to Gaul?
a. north
b. east
c. south
d. west
______7. What mountain range separated Gaul from Spain?
a. Pyrenees
b. Apennines
c. Caucasus
d. Atlas
______8. Mount Olympus, the legendary home of the gods, is located in
a. Asia Minor
b. northern Greece
c. southern Italy
d. Africa
______9. What province at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea fell under the domination of the
Parthian empire before being conquered by the Greeks and later added to the Roman Empire?
a. Britannia
b. Gallia
c. Asia
d. Africa
______10. What island, the mythological home of the Minotaur and the labyrinth, forms the southern
boundary of the Aegean Sea?
a. Sicily
b. Sardinia
c. Crete
d. Britain
______11. Invaders crossed this river dividing Germany and Gaul to attack some of Caesar’s allies:
a. Rhine
b. Nile
c. Tiber
d. Po
______12. Sailing eastward from Athens across the Aegean Sea, what country do you reach?
a. Turkey
b. Egypt
c. Italy
d. Spain
______13. Which of the following cities was located in northern Africa?
a. Carthage
b. Brundisium
c. Naples
d. Athens
______14. From which Italian port city did Caesar depart when he sailed to meet Pompey in Greece?
a. Rome
b. Pompeii
c. Brundisium
d. Athens