The Etruscans

Could they have come from Troy? Romulus and Remus

The Etruscans The Latins were the first people to live in the area that eventually became Rome. The Latins were primarily farmers. The Latins are still there today.

The Etruscans What we know of the Etruscans we know from the necropolis that they left behind –City of the dead –A cemetery

The Etruscans Etruscan society had three classes of people The Aristocrats –Landowners –Priests –Nobles

The Etruscans The Middle Class Farmers Merchants Workers

The Etruscans Lower class The enslaved people Acrobats

The Etruscans When the Etruscans founded a city they used soothsayers to show where the boundaries of the city should be.

The Etruscans They built their cities of brick. Etruscans figured out how to make bridges using the arch.

The Etruscans The Etruscan alphabet was based on the Greek alphabet Etruscan writing has never been translated.

The Etruscans Slaves fought against each other as part of the Etruscan burial rites. Losers were buried with the dead as their servants.

The Etruscans The Etruscan symbol of power was called a fasces Symbolized the power of life and death like the crook and flail

The Etruscans Etruscans built the first temple on one of the seven hills of Rome, the Capitoline.

The Etruscans The Etruscans believed the spirits of the dead returned to the earth three times a year.