By: Alexis O hler

1. By: Alexis Ohler Liked music and dancing the lyre accompanied most activities Enjoyed games such as macula, gambling and sports Used phalanx army borrowed from Greeks Known as people of the sea for their skills pirates and traders Became Italy's 1st highly civilized people Used iron tools to grow crops and cattle to pull plows and wagons Used there shoes as Unique weapons called hobnails they gave them better footing on hilly or rough ground There where 3 types of classes wealthy workers and slaves

2. Wrote an alphabet borrowed from Greeks and spoke Latin different from any other language Built tunnels and built dams to drain fields cities on hill tops Houses where 1 story and had clay tile roof that caved in and water went into court yard Filled tombs with gold outside each city was a necropolis or cemetery made up of acres of tombs Dead bodies where buried in tombs underneath the ground called catacombs The Etruscans believed that the universe was divided into province ruled by different gods