Which three geographical advantages did the Roman historian Livy see in Rome's location? The caves in the surrounding mountains served as storehouses. The Mediterranean Sea and Tiber River allowed for travel and trade. A stretch of desert protected Rome on the eastern side. Rome's central location allowed the republic to expand. Mountains and the sea provided protection from invasions. The large inland lake near Rome acted as a waterway.

Assuming the top qualities Livy wants are Expansion, Trade and Safety for the militaryas rome was wealthy and wanted to expand their empire for power, money and of course they needed safety to do so besides the power.

The Mediterranean Sea and Tiber River allowed for travel and trade.

Rome's central location allowed the republic to expand.

Mountains and the sea provided protection from invasions.

a stronger government

a hypothesis is an expected answer to a question, usually based on some theory or prior research. hypothesis testing is a method of determining the viability of a hypothesis. let’s use the us presidential election as an example. there are many hypotheses (questions) about how people feel or whom they will vote for. the only way to know the 100% “truth” about the answers to these questions is to ask every single possible voter – something that is impossible, expensive, time consuming etc. instead, we take samples and use statistics to make “best guesses” about the answer to a particular hypothesis. we never know for sure if our conclusion is right at the time we accept/reject it, but these techniques, when used appropriately can get us close to the truth most of the time (which is a lot better than guessing, flipping coins or throwing darts to get answers).

the tricky part about hypothesis testing is that we have to think somewhat backwards about it – we have to test what is known as the “null hypothesis”. as an example, the hypothesis might be “obama is more popular than romney” while the null hypothesis is “there is no difference in popularity between obama and romney”. we focus on the null hypothesis because it tells us exactly what the expected value of our tests should be (obama popularity = romney popularity) and we can collect data and see if it comes out that way (see next section on “significance”). if it does, then we “accept the null hypothesis” and reject our original hypothesis. if the null hypothesis is disproven, we look at the data to see if our original hypothesis holds (obama> romney).