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"And nothing else" means literally "nothing else", not even country borders. The only way you can see that it's Italy with its boot and Sicily and Spain and North Africa and, and ... what's that over there on the right? ... oh, Israel Palestine (then!)... the only way you can see these is because of the number of Roman settlements that effectively outline them, with settlements all along the coasts and borders.
Every Roman settlement that was founded or administered by the Roman empire.
It's a bit of a wow. I mean, we knew, but still....
