CIVILIZATION
ETRUSCAN
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Question
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It is fair to say that the Etruscans were in many ways the predecessors of the Romans and that early Rome was as much an Etruscan city as it was a “Roman” city.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Etruscans were predecessors of the Romans in the Italian Peninsula and the Romans borrowed many cultural aspects from them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Etruscan influence on ancient Roman culture was profound and it was from the Etruscans that the Romans inherited many of their own cultural and artistic traditions, from the spectacle of gladiatorial combat, to hydraulic engineering, temple design, and religious ritual, among many other things.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though you may not have heard of them, the Etruscans were the first “superpower” of the Western Mediterranean who, alongside the Greeks, developed the earliest true cities in Europe.
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