The climate in southern europe is mostly A. temperate
B. polar
C. tropical
D. highland

Temperate

Explanation: I think you would know that the climate isn't polar or highland so that leaves to tropical and temperate. Tropical climate is way down south while temperate climate is close like Mediterranean climate. South Europe is Mediterranean.

If you look through the picture, you can compare it.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire