The Roman World Around the Sea (Mare Internum)
Roman geography centered on the Mediterranean, with roads and sea routes linking Italy, Gaul, Spain, Africa, Greece, Asia, Syria, and Egypt. Rome called this sea Mare Nostrum, "Our Sea."
Grades 5–8. Places and stories.
How it connects
Modern Europe, North Africa, and the Near East still show Roman place names, roads, ruins, and legal memory.
Latin words that go with this card: mare, Italia, provincia, portus.