CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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Etruscans
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Greeks
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Phoenicians
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some suggested they were Pelasgians who had migrated there from Greece. Others maintained that they were indigenous to central Italy and were not from Greece. The first Greek author to mention the Etruscans, whom the Ancient Greeks called Tyrrhenians, was the 8th-century BC poet Hesiod, in his work, the Theogony.
Detailed explanation-2: -Etruscan, member of an ancient people of Etruria, Italy, between the Tiber and Arno rivers west and south of the Apennines, whose urban civilization reached its height in the 6th century bce.
Detailed explanation-3: -Arriving in Italy around 800BC, the Etruscans were skilled craftsmen, metal workers, seafarers and merchants who traded with the Greeks and later the Romans, who assimilated them.