How did the location of the city of Rome help its economy grow?
The island location allowed for fishing.
Fertile farmland supported crop production.
The Tiber River limited competition for trade.
Plentiful natural resources made it self-sufficient.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t