Where is Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome set?

1998 expansion for the video game Age of Empires

Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome (1998): 2 real places its Wikipedia article names as the setting, in Italy, Iraq. Wikidata records no setting for this game at all, so this is prose rather than a statement, and it is labelled that way below. Where the game takes place, not where it was made: a game is filmed nowhere, so this is the only kind of location it has.

Part of the Age of Empires game series

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