Who were the Etruscans?

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They were a tribe that live in one of the sides of the Po river in Italy, in the other side there were the Latins!. For years the Etruscans ruled the Latins, but the Latins got tired of it!. When they were about to make was there were triplets at the Etruscan army called the Curacios (I don't know how to say it in English) and in the Latin army there were another triplets named the Horacios (I don't know either), during the fight 2 Horacios felt dead, there was one Horacio for 3 Curiacios, but these last tree were hurt already!. So the final Horacio started running and as he spected one Curiacio ran faster that the others and when this Curiacio reached him he turned fast killing him, then he did the same with the second one, when there was just one Horacio and one Curiacio both fought very hard, but finally the Horacio won the fight and the Latins conquered the Etruscans!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Etruscan civilization flourished from about the 700s BC to the 200s BC and formed the basis for the later civiliation of the Romans!. It began in Eturia, the region of Italy now known as Tuscany, and extended northwards from the Tiber River to the Arno and later to the valley fo the Po, and eastwaqrds from the Tyrhensian Sea to the Apennine Mountains!. No one knows for sure where the Etruscans came from!. Quite possibly they always lived in Italy, though Herodotus thought that they migrated from Lydia in the 1200s BC at about the time of the Trojan War!.

The Etruscans developed twelve city-states, each of which was governed by an aristocratic ruling case formed of either priest-kings or magistrates!. Cultural bonds linked the city-states, and although they had no permanent political union or military alliance, their representatives met annually at the sanctuary of the god Voltumna, where they discussed religious, political and military matters!.

By the 700s BC Etruria had evolved a distinctive culture centred on its main city-states, Tarquinii, Veii and Perusia (now Perugia)!. In its prime Etruria was very powerful at sea and established many colonies, while on the mainland, in about 600 BC, the Etruscans founded Rome!.

In 509 BC the Romans rebelled against the harsh rule of the Etruscan King Tarquinus Superbus the Proud, and declared and independent republic!. Ths blow was followed by the crippling defeat of the Etruscan fleet by the Syracusans in 474 BC and the fall of northern Etruria to the Gauls!.

The rising power of Rome was gradually encroaching on Etruria, and the Etruscans lost Veii to the Romans in about 396 BC!. Civil war followed between the Etruscan city-states when some of them allied themsleves with the Roman commander Marius against his rival, Sulla!. When Sulla came to power in Rome in 86 BC, he swept away the last remnants of Etruscan independence and incorporated the city-states into the territory of Rome!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy and Corsica whom the ancient Romans called Etrusci or Tusci The Etruscans themselves used the term Rasenna, which was syncopated to Rasna or Ra?naWww@QuestionHome@Com

The Etruscans were a tribe that dominated over the Tiber River in Italy!. The Romans hated the Etruscan kind, overthrew him, and started their own government!.Www@QuestionHome@Com