What was the land like around rome?

Hills and Mountains. Italy is roughly divided into east and west by the Apennine Mountains, which stretch 830 miles from the Alps in northern Italy to the island of Sicily in the south.

from the conditions of the working class in england by friedrich engels,the main idea is :

this forms a narrow, steep sided inlet (sometimes deeper than 1300 metres) connected to the sea. the terminal moraine pushed down the valley by the glacier is left underwater at the fjord’s entrance, causing the water at the neck of the fjord to be shallower than the main body of the fjord behind it.