<span>Sparta was more isolated than Athens was. Sparta was located on a plain between the mountains and the sea in the part of Greece, which is the Peloponnesus (look it up). Spartans were usually suspicious of outsiders and their ideas. Geography had affected development in Sparta by making Spartans grow what they needed or would often take what they needed from their neighbors. Spartans valued strength and simplicity while Athens had boasted about their art and culture.</span>
<span>Temples supported all sorts of economically productive activities within their walls. </span>
The quote indicates a Roman expansion of land. during the rule of Augustus
Explanation:
During the prosperous reign of the king Augustus, the empire of Rome stretched along the lines that the quote has given thus it is a passage about the stretch of land that was under Roman control at that time.
The tone of the passage conveys that it is not just a survey of the land under Roman rule but a boast of the might of the Roman empires and its vast stretch from mythical rivers to far away lands as being described here.
