What happend to the Etruscans?
PLEASE READ ALL I GOT ON THEM, as we can read in here, Caudius wrote their history but did not survive. Etruscans, called Tyrrhenians by the Greeks, Tusci or Etrusci by Latin speakers, a pre-Roman people of central Italy and in early times Rome’s principal rivals for the control of that area. Etruscan culture came into being c.700 BC, apparently as a development from that of the early Iron Age Villanovans, which flowered briefly in that region. Politically the Etruscans made up a loose confederation of independent cities, and at the height of their power, from c.620 to c.500 BC, they controlled an empire reaching from the Po in the north to Campania in the south, including early Rome. The Roman king Tarquinius Priscus was said, probably rightly, to have been of Etruscan origin. After the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome at the end of the sixth century, the Etruscans gradually lost their southern territory, suffering a famous defeat at Aricia c.504, and had perhaps already surrendere
