Why is Rome’s location beneficial to expansion?

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Across
  1. 2. Alps, in the north served as a barrier against invasions.
  2. 6. Destiny, Stories such as Romulus and Remus and the Aeneid tied Roman identity to divine destiny and noble conquest.
  3. 8. A political alliance among three leaders.
  4. 9. reflected Rome’s religious and cultural ties to Greece but took on distinct civic and political meanings in Roman society.
  5. 11. Conquest, Romulus and Remus
  6. 12. crossed the Alps into Italy, but Rome eventually repelled him
  7. 14. (a powerful Phoenician colony in North Africa), fought over control of trade and territory.
Down
  1. 1. Legal status granting rights and privileges.
  2. 3. A large political unit controlled by an emperor.
  3. 4. Regarded as a god or supreme being.
  4. 5. Mediterranean Sea, protected Rome on three sides and connected it to major trade routes
  5. 7. A government where power rests with elected representatives.
  6. 10. Peninsula offered natural protection:
  7. 13. Punic Wars, were a series of conflicts