HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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No one knows the exact origin of the Etruscans
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The Etruscans ruled Rome and other parts of Italy.
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The Etruscans both built and conquered city-states.
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Etruscans were master bronzesmiths who exported their finished products all over the Mediterranean. Finely worked bronzes, such as thrones and chariots decorated with exquisite hammered reliefs (03.23. 1), cast statues and statuettes (17.190.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Etruscans, people from the Etrurian region of the Italian peninsula, were known as the Tyrrhenians to the Greeks.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Roman Republic was founded in 509 B.C.E. after the last Etruscan king that ruled Rome was overthrown.
Detailed explanation-4: -Even the name “Etruscans” comes from Etruria, the name the Romans gave to this region that lay immediately to the north of their capital (according to the first-century-historian Plutarch, the ancient inhabitants of Tuscany called themselves “Rasenna”).