Built around agriculture, but also 2. Trade between the Germanic people to the north and the Mediterranean. Great Social stratification. D. Culture 1. Literature is undeciphered.
Visual Arts are well developed.
Some aspects are borrowed from archaic Greece. F. Relation of Etruscan to Roman culture 1. Legendary 7 kings of Rome were Etruscan rulers. Civic and military development based on Etruscan models 3. When Tarquin Superbus, the last Etruscan king, is expelled in 509 BC, the Republic is established.