28 Facts About Etruscan civilisation

Etruscan civilisation civilization was developed by a people of Etruria in ancient Italy with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states.

Etruscan civilisation civilization endured until it was assimilated into Roman society.

Territorial extent of Etruscan civilisation civilization reached its maximum around 750 BC, during the foundational period of the Roman Kingdom.

The Etruscan civilisation language remains only partly understood, making modern understanding of their society and culture heavily dependent on much later and generally disapproving Roman and Greek sources.

The term Tusci is thought by linguists to have been the Umbrian word for "Etruscan civilisation", based an inscription on an ancient bronze tablet from a nearby region.

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Literary and historical texts in the Etruscan civilisation language have not survived, and the language itself is only partially understood by modern scholars.

Etruscan civilisation mentioned them as residing in central Italy alongside the Latins.

Question of Etruscan civilisation origins has long been a subject of interest and debate among historians.

Etruscan civilisation noted that, even if these stories include historical facts suggesting contact, such contact is more plausibly traceable to cultural exchange than to migration.

However contacts between the inhabitants of Etruria and inhabitants of Greece, Aegean Sea Islands, Asia Minor, and the Near East are attested only centuries later, when Etruscan civilisation civilization was already flourishing and Etruscan civilisation ethnogenesis was well established.

The ancient Etruscan civilisation samples had mitochondrial DNA haplogroups JT and U5, with a minority of mtDNA H1b.

Etruscan civilisation civilization begins with the Villanovan culture, regarded as the oldest phase.

The last three phases of Etruscan civilisation civilization are called, respectively, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic, which roughly correspond to the homonymous phases of the ancient Greek civilization.

Etruscan civilisation expansion was focused both to the north beyond the Apennine Mountains and into Campania.

However, it is certain that the political structure of the Etruscan civilisation culture was similar to, albeit more aristocratic than, Magna Graecia in the south.

Etruscan civilisation settlements were frequently built on hills – the steeper the better – and surrounded by thick walls.

The true picture is rather more complicated, not least because the Etruscan civilisation cities were separate entities which never came together to form a single Etruscan civilisation state.

The most telling Etruscan civilisation feature is the word populus, which appears as an Etruscan civilisation deity, Fufluns.

Political unity in Etruscan civilisation society was the city-state, which was probably the referent of, "district".

Etruscan civilisation cities flourished over most of Italy during the Roman Iron Age, marking the farthest extent of Etruscan civilisation civilization.

Etruscan civilisation system of belief was an immanent polytheism; that is, all visible phenomena were considered to be a manifestation of divine power and that power was subdivided into deities that acted continually on the world of man and could be dissuaded or persuaded in favour of human affairs.

Roman temples show many of the same differences in form to Greek ones that Etruscan civilisation temples do, but like the Greeks, use stone, in which they closely copy Greek conventions.

Etruscan civilisation architecture is not generally considered as part of the body of Greco-Roman classical architecture.

Etruscan civilisation art was produced by the Etruscan civilisation civilization between the 9th and 2nd centuries BC.

Etruscan civilisation temples were heavily decorated with colourfully painted terracotta antefixes and other fittings, which survive in large numbers where the wooden superstructure has vanished.

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Etruscan civilisation art was strongly connected to religion; the afterlife was of major importance in Etruscan civilisation art.

Etruscan civilisation inscriptions disappeared from Chiusi, Perugia and Arezzo around this time.

Many thousand inscriptions in Etruscan civilisation are known, mostly epitaphs, and a few very short texts have survived, which are mainly religious.