It honestly depends on what part of history you are referring to, but here are a few ways that the geography of Rome helped with its safety. Rome had an amazing navy, and the Romans designed thin, flexible boats that could maneuver around the islands and archipelagos and ram into the bigger ships of other countries. There were a few instances, during the Punic Wars, I believe, <span>where the larger armies of other countries tried to attack Rome, but got stuck on the narrow paths. They could only send a few soldiers through at a time, and the Romans easily picked them off. </span>
Isaac Newton, a worldwide known astronomer, physicist, mathematician and the creator of famous "Three Laws of Newton" brought up a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants from the 12th century. The meaning of the above-mentioned metaphor is that people should discover truth based on previous experiences. The exact phrase Newton said in 1675 was that if he had seen further that was by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
