The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-29
CHAUTAUQUA.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
On the G. L. s. G. Text Books.

On the q. Il. ,. u. IcXC BOOKS
VINCENT & JOYS "OUTL1NE HISTORY OF
ROME"
Q. What is Roman History? A. The story OF
one city continued through twelve centuries.
@. What forms the best approach to the study
of Roman History? A. knowledge of the geog'
raphy of Italy.
Q. Give description of Italy? A. A long
narrow peninsula swinging out from the body OF
Europe into the Mediterranean sea, tending to the
eastward as it falls.
Q. What is the general outline of Italy on the
map2 A. 1t resembles a human leg and foot
Q. What geographical position does Italy oc.
cupy? A. 1t is the central of the three peninsu.
las of Southern Europe, Spain lying to the west
and the Balkan peninsula, with Greece at its ex-
tremity, on the east.
O. What mountains cut it off from the CONT
nent? A. The Alps, the two piers of the arch OF
which rest on the CULTS Of Genoa and Venice.
Q. Give the extreme length and the average
width of Italy. A. Seven hundred miles long and
one hundred miles wide.
Q. What is the area of the country? A. 1t is
somewhat less than one hundred thousand square
miles and is about twice that of the state of New
York.
Q. Name the only considerable mountain
ranges. A. The Alps and Apennines.
Q. What is the height and leading feature of
the Alps? A. Fifteen thousand feet, and they
present an almost impossible barrier to foreign
invasion.
Q. Give the trend of the Apennines mountains.
A. From the northwestern part of Italy they
first trail east to the Adratic (Which the Romans
called the upper in distinction from the Lower
or Tuscan sea which washed their western shores)
then turn sharply to the SOUTH finally breaking
up in a network of hills with intervening valleys.
Q. Name the other mountains Of Italy. A.
Aetna in Sicily. and Mount Vultur, the Alban
Hills and Vesuvius on the mainland.
Q. Mention the one large river of Italy. A.
The Padus, or Pc.
Q. How does Virgil describe the Pc? A. AS
the king OF rivers.''
Q. What are the tributaries of the Pc, and what
are its main features? A. The Trebia. Ticnus,
Addua and Mincius, and the Atheists or Adige; and
it waters the great plain of Lombardy, as the fiat
district is called which lies between the Alps and
Apennines.
Q. In what did Northern or Continental Italy.
differ from the Southern portion, or Italy proper?
A. In physical features, population and history.
Q. What three distinct regions were included
venetia, eastward and Galla Cisalpina, or Cisal-
pine Gaul, between them.
Q. How was that portion of the country lying
south of the Rubicon designated? A. AS Italy
proper of the Romans, and was made up of two
general divisions. Central and Lower Italy
Q. How far did Central Italy extend? A. From
the little rivers Macra and Rubicon, on the north;
to the Slarus and Frento. on the south, and from
sea to sea,
Q. Where is Etruria situated? A. On the Tus-
can coast and in the wellwatered plain which was
left by the Apennines as they bowed toward the
east.
@. What is said of the antiquity of its inhabit-
ants. the Etruscans? A. They were already an
ancient race when Rome founded.
Q. What towns were in their territory? A.
volaterrae, Arretium, Clusium and Veil, long a
rival of Rome.