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The cities in Ancient Greece were separated by hilly countryside. All the cities were near to water bodies. Rome was an inland country and situated on the banks of River Tiber. Greek art was considered to be superior to that of Roman Art.
The main similarities between Greek and Roman political structures were that both empires were made up of several city-states, both believed that the citizens needed to actively participate in politics and military service, and both favored aristocratic rule.
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Italy was not a unified nation in the 1500's but a series of regions and city-states which shared the same peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. The power/domination of the Church of Rome had lost influenc.