1. Ch13
13-2 The Etruscans

2. 1. Etruscans -may have come from Lydia in Asia Minor
-settled 800BC in Etruria
-north of Palatine
-highly civilized
-adapted to environment
-dug tunnels and built dams to
drain fields
-built cities on hilltops surrounded by
a wall

3. 2. Occupations -main occupations were trading and piracy
-also farmers, miners, metalworkers, and merchants

4. 3. Army -strong -learned from the Greeks -Phalanx -best weapon -shoes
-600 BC
-dominated northern Italy

5. 4.Daily Life -liked sports and games
-played music and danced mostly for religious
purposes
-flute
-lyre
-women had the right to own property and take
part in public celebrations
-believed in social order
-at first no social classes

6. Wealthy landowners, nobles, priests
Farmers, traders,
City workers
slaves

7. 5. Religious beliefs -polytheistic -built temples
-universe divided into provinces
-ruled by different gods
-humans lived in center facing south
-earth and nature
-west
-death and underworld
-east
-gods of heaven

8. -wanted to please gods
-soothsayers
-omens
-livers
-thunder and lightning
-death
-nobles
-party
-slaves fought to death
-spirit went to underworld
-buried in catacombs
-pictures
-chairs
-beds

9. -eternal life very important
-”tombs of gold”
-necropolis
-city of Caere (largest)