26 Facts About Etruscan civilization

Etruscan 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 civilization endured until it was assimilated into Roman society.

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

The Etruscan civilization 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 civilization", based an inscription on an ancient bronze tablet from a nearby region.

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

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

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

Etruscan civilization 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 civilization was already flourishing and Etruscan ethnogenesis was well established.

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

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

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

Etruscan civilization 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 civilization culture was similar to, albeit more aristocratic than, Magna Graecia in the south.

Etruscan civilization 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 civilization cities were separate entities which never came together to form a single Etruscan civilization state.

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

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

Etruscan civilization 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 civilization temples do, but like the Greeks, use stone, in which they closely copy Greek conventions.

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

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

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

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

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