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Who were the Etruscans?
Explain the Etruscans history
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"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.1 The Attic Greek word for them was Τυρρήνιοι (Tyrrhēnioi) from which Latin also drew the names Tyrrhēni (Etruscans), Tyrrhēnia (Etruria) and Mare Tyrrhēnum (Tyrrhenian Sea).2 The Etruscans themselves used the term Rasenna, which was syncopated to Rasna or Raśna.3"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization
If you want to go into great detail you may be interested in this.
http://books.google.com/books?id=bUhT7i7XhOAC&pg=PA198&dq=Etruscan+League#v=onepage&q=Etruscan%20League&f=false
(I'll be checking that one out later myself it looks very interesting)
"The question of Etruscan origins has been a controversial subject for many years. Nowadays, it is fair to say that most authorities would agree that the Etruscans were autochthonous, and that the predecessors of the Etruscan civilization that started to manifest itself in the regions of Cerveteri, Tarquinia, Vulci and Vetulonia in the North in the early 7th century BCE had been in the region for many hundreds of years beforehand. There is however a large gulf between popular conceptions of the Etruscans, and the generally well established beliefs of academics in the field, as the generally acknowledged 'father of Etruscology', Massimo Pallatino pointed out in his introduction to the 1986 reprint of D.L. Lawrence's "Etruscan Places" :
http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/history.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization
If you want to go into great detail you may be interested in this.
http://books.google.com/books?id=bUhT7i7XhOAC&pg=PA198&dq=Etruscan+League#v=onepage&q=Etruscan%20League&f=false
(I'll be checking that one out later myself it looks very interesting)
"The question of Etruscan origins has been a controversial subject for many years. Nowadays, it is fair to say that most authorities would agree that the Etruscans were autochthonous, and that the predecessors of the Etruscan civilization that started to manifest itself in the regions of Cerveteri, Tarquinia, Vulci and Vetulonia in the North in the early 7th century BCE had been in the region for many hundreds of years beforehand. There is however a large gulf between popular conceptions of the Etruscans, and the generally well established beliefs of academics in the field, as the generally acknowledged 'father of Etruscology', Massimo Pallatino pointed out in his introduction to the 1986 reprint of D.L. Lawrence's "Etruscan Places" :
http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/history.html
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