What makes Rome more than just a city (keeping in mind we still research it and read about it 2000 years later)?

Paragraph 1: The first Roman emperor, Augustus (63 B.C. – A.D. 14), ended a century of civil warsand thus enabled a long period of peace for the Roman Empire to occur. Rome's population, whichhad been reduced by the wars, rebounded and grew to approximately one million; the city becamethe greatest and wealthiest metropolis of premodern Europe, if not the whole premodern world.Wealth flowing into the city also flowed out into the Italian hinterland, other parts of the Empire, andeven beyond to purchase the foodstuffs, material, services, and luxuries that the city demanded.This dynamic in turn had a significant effect on the economy, both agricultural and urban, of this era.Small farmers near the city could produce labor-intensive garden crops for the profitable Romanmarket. Moreover, as Rome's economic impact stimulated urban growth elsewhere in Italy, othersmall farmers gained access to similar profitable urban markets.1. According to paragraph 1, all of the following were true of the Roman Empire during thetime of Emperor Augustus EXCEPT:A: The population in various Italian cities increasedB: Goods from distant lands could be bought in the city of RomeC: Owners of small farms began to participate in ttie market economy.D: More wealth flowed out of the city of Rome than into itParagraph 2: The existence of large urban populations in Rome and other Italian cities thatattracted youth from the countryside greatly alleviated the problem created by Rome's inheritancelaws, by which all sons of a farmer were entitled to receive a portion of his land, so that farms weresubdivided into smaller, increasingly uneconomical units. According to one fairly conservativeestimate, 7.000 fresh immigrants a year were needed just to keep up the numbers of Rome's freepopulation. Rome and other urban populations were constantly being diminished by the high deathrate characteristic of premodern cities with their unsanitary conditions and densely packed housing.Therefore, just to maintain their existing size, urban centers had to attract the surplus population ofthe Italian countryside.2. According to paragraph 2, why did urban areas require many new immigrants each year?A: A comparatively large number of city residents died every yearB: Wealthy city residents often moved away to escape unsanitary and crowded conditionsC: Profitable urban markets encouraged city residents to become farmers in the countrysideD: Additional workers were needed each year to create housing for growing urban centers.3. Paragraph 2 implies that which of the following was one result of the sons of farmersmoving from the countryside to urban centers?A: It made it possible for farmers to subdivide their farms lessB: It made farming profitable enough for them to hire non-family members as farm workersC: It encouraged them to buy land for farming instead of relying solely on inherited land.D: It encouraged them to support efforts to change Roman inheritance laws

Why was the city of Pompeii popular among Romans?

Name the river on which the city of Rome is

f you had lived in the Roman Empire, where would you rather have lived—in the towns or in the countryside? Explain why

How did Italian city-states become so powerful?