Etruscans: Italian Civilization Before Ancient Rome 

@Kings and Generals will be done. As always another excellent video, very glad to support this channel

I like the vitual tours of invicta channel and the batles related in this chanel , like too this ancient civilization.please make the sicilian wars , (in wikipedia there are a lot of material to create your videos about that) , also make wars of independence of southamerica,or another wars in southamerica.

As a guy that actually comes from ancient etruscan lands I fooken loved the fact that you actually covered this! I mean i go to tarquinia every summer to enjoy the seaside Amazing🤯

Anyone else go-ahead and like the video before you ever watch it?

@@FreeFallingAir I do that on a regular basis

Can't get a Monty Python reference past this old dog. My compliments. Please enjoy a bag of Wolf Nipple Chips with the video.

Me: Concrete + metallurgy + Mosaics + The early legionary structure + harsh military discipline + organized urbanization + government structure + medicine + advance agriculture techniques... and the ancient/earliest version of gender equality. Romans: Ow shut up!!!

@@petermills3814... 😂🤣😅

@@petermills3814 so you guys do accept that civilization in Europe founded by Touranian/Turkic race, the Etruscans.. Just as other Touranian/Turkic races Elam, Sumarians, Akadians, Hititians, Frigians...brought civilization to middle east also to earth.. these civilizations had been the main source for later cultures, religions and races as Antic Egyptians, Antik Greek, Rome, Persian, Chinese and many others..

@@Ataturksmen No, if the Etruscans were related previously to the sea peoples from the North and West of the Mediterranean from already being there many thousands of years earlier in that region or the Trojans = who may have been partly related to the Greeks too in some ways, then it's both a no and yes in some complicated subjects. Civilization may have started in Egypt and Mesopotamia for humanity... but other civilizations were coming about afterwards who didn't have much contact with them at all = and created their own civilizations out of their own ideas instead. The Celts + China, India and others. Even if those two civilizations way above never existed, those others like the Greeks and all other younger civilizations in peoples and culture would've grown on their own up from the ground eventfully... it would have just taken a few more centuries or so at most.

You forgot being breast-feed by a she-wolf.

Dont forget to force marriage Sabinian Women and do the same to the entire Mediterranean.

You forgot point 2,5 : Defeat Carthage in 3 Major wars

4. Defeat your trade competitors and literally cover their only fertile field with salt.

This also worked in my Empire

amazing, didnt know that!

Persona it's Serbian word

@@vesnadjokic146 I'm talking about the origin, not the current use

@@pippoari yes Iam talking about origin coz Etruscan letter was Serbian ancient letter

@@pippoari Svetislav Bilbija was the first to decipher the Etruscan script, noticing that the Etruscan letters resembled Vuk's Cyrillic letters. When he started reading them from right to left, he was able to assemble words that had the same root as many words in the modern Serbian language. Previously, many Western scientists struggled unsuccessfully to decipher the Etruscan language, persistently refusing to use Slavic, that is Serbian, for that. This is how the key to the Etruscan lock was found. Bilbia then found that the Cyrillic alphabet developed from the cuneiform script of the Nisans, a people recorded in literature as the Hittites from Asia Minor, who built the city of Srb in the Lycia area 2,000 years before Christ. By comparing the inscriptions from the obelisk from Xanthos with the signs of Vuko's Cyrillic alphabet, Bilbija read all the monuments of the Etruscan people and thus determined that all these peoples originated from the Danube, from the area where the Serbs live today. It is known that the Etruscans lived in today's Italy before the Latins and called themselves Rasani. The generally accepted interpretation of scientists is that the word Ras means strain, race, belonging to a tribe that speaks the same language. Today, we know that the Rasans were residents of Nemanja's state, and the ruins of the city of Ras still exist. Therefore, to speak of the Etruscans, means to speak of the Rasans who lived in the area of ​​the Vinča culture, northwest of Prokuplje, Serbia.

Cut him some slack: he did not have any pants.

@@SmashBrosBrawl ok he couldn’t keep it in his chiton

And none of his sons had guts to castrate him, like his father did to his.

Yes indeed.. all the powerful people they do that

@@SmashBrosBrawl No, that's how Heracle got his nickname Blackbutt

Trantor by far. Just sad that they didnt stand United in time. Had they been United from le start they would’ve fought of rome

@@Arthurwellesley12 heh who cares, I'm happy of the outcome anyway.

Precisely. Rome would have never been ROME without them, plus they were really advanced for european standards (excluding the Greeks obv) Edit: also northern Italy had some mysterious great civilisations like the Insubrians etc, only a few weapons are left but the names of cities and villages still carries their ancient language

What do you mean the "western"???

Davide C. Ye. The etruscans was small but tremendously powerfull and Rich. Sp they could easily field very large armies and could even increase those Numbers with mercs if need be.

Not just after the fall of the Empire. Much of the Renaissance of Europe began in Tuscany.

They stopped to be Etruscans during the Roman Empire and even less after its fall.

It's more the geography than the people

@@LuisAldamiz I wouldn't call the renaissance limited to only Italy, it basically dragged Europe out of the dark ages...

@@LuisAldamiz you are correct, I used the term dark ages in a much broader sense than I should have, but I stand by my comment that the Florentine renaissance (Tuscany) had an important and lasting effect on Europe as a whole. And that was the point I (and the OP) was making. That the people of Tuscany played an important role with art and culture in Europe, both before (Etruscans) and after (Tuscans) the roman Empire.

yes

This. I myself am interested what the Samnites were like.

Ligurians are one of my favourite ancient population. Indomitable and harsh as Liguria can be.

@@imgvillasrc1608 same here. Samnites were a strong people and they gave the Romans hell for at least 3 centuries. I often wonder what would have happened to Italy if the Samnites had not been beaten. Their culture was great too.

Umbrians were italics

Ah, but you have access now!!

I can assuredly understand what you relate. I think part of the problem, when it comes to schools, is the fact many do not seem to find it worthwhile to include history as a key subject any longer. Always seeming to focus on moving forward, new, new, new, without any thought as to how we've even arrived at where we are. I'm quite happy now that I spent time in the past teaching my kids the importance of history, as they've managed to teach my Grand-children the same. I can happily state that currently, my Grand-Daughter knows more at 14 then I ever did at her age and though RU-vid has helped, she also knows the importance of good books. I just wished they live closer, to take advantage of my own library, sigh.

I saw you comment on another video the other day, cant remember what.

Then comes the huns, Germanic tribes, and Gauls: HELLO THERE

Hippity hoppity you're now my property!

"You guys are still living in city states? Dude that's so last epoch, lemme fix that for you."

just like blood sucking brit.even rome seems not as barbaric

Roma invicta!!!!

*Dovahatty intensifies*

Biggus Dickus Dovahatty is love Dovahatty is life

Etruria Delenda Est

@@torum6448 yes. He's the omega Chad

Greetings from Milton Pennsylvania home of malicious ignorant rednecks

Check out Historia Civilis, i like that channel even more then this one, you might enjoy it too.

@@benlalammohamedrachid3112 If we're talking quality then historymarche and epic history tv are by far the best. But then again, no channel including historia civilis uploads as often as k&g, so that makes them the best in my book as their documentary time periods vary from antiquity to the modern era, unlike any other good history channel that I know.

Rachid Mohamed Problem with Historia Civilis is that 90% of his videos are about a short and specific period of history (Late Roman Republic), whereas K&G covets a vastly larger and more diverse set of topics.

I live for videos like this lol

One of the best :)

You from India?

Etruschi erano Origine Ilire perché loro non erano molto lontani nella nostra lingua Truri -Cervello,e Toscana Toke vuol dire Terra e Skane- avevano,noi tra l'altro abbiamo due accenti di Nord che si chiama Gege e di Sud" Toske"e la lingua e di Nord ,anche tante statue hanno copricapo in testa

Yes ,details from their buildings have been associated with Asia Minor's civilizations

Trojans were indo European thought

@@user-pd1kc7dc6o were they? I mean they weren't Greek, and supposedly had cultural and political ties with the Lydians, who were also non Indo-European.

Either Herodotus use it as “bygone era” (Trojan War being an ancient time by his era), or Asia Minor architecture being a cultural fad that got hungover (I mean Hittite-Anatolian civilization-was one of the major civilizations during Bronze Age).

the moment when u realize 'white' civilizations are based on lies and other cultures

I don't get the boar vessel thing

wtf, it's true that genetics and ethnicity are way more complex than we might imagined them to be, but those people are just either trolls or just simply pathetic.

Loads of Turk Nationalists as well

Because they’re not very significant to world history except in their relationship to Rome.

saying that you miss out on how influential Rome was and how much effect its had on our society including yours.

@@kevin6293 But Rome was pretty significant to history. That would make the Etruscans just as important as Rome considering the context of their relationship.

@@kevin6293 They built the cloaca maxima in Rome, which was very important... ;) :)

Because Etruscans did not look like today's "Europeans". Ancient artifacts have them looking more like Pacific Islanders.

@@b.cdrisk2035 My sister calls herself a genius - doesn't mean that it's true. But I understand completely what you're saying.

Civilization exists in a cyclic pattern

@@b.cdrisk2035 I mean, you could argue that modern Western culture is an extension Roman culture and therefore Roman civilization never fell. It just seems rather arbitrary, this whole "drawing the line" thing that we do whenever we're trying to determine when one civilization ends and another begins. The truth is that cultures rarely die out completely -- rather, they change and adapt to the times. For practical purposes, I'd go with traditional historiography and argue that the fall of Roman civilization happened in 476 AD with the deposition of the last Roman Emperor.

@@b.cdrisk2035 Yes. The name "Byzantium" given to the East Roman Empire is an invention of a german historian from the 18th century. The Est Roman Empire was never called "Byzantium" as Byzantium was the name of Costantinopoly before the Roman Emperor Costantino changed it, making it the capital of the ERE. Yes, the ERE, not "Byzan..."

@@Ni999 But isn't the Byzantine Empire (a name given to it by western Europeans after its fall) the eastern half of the Roman Empire? That means the people who call themselves Romans in Greece/Anatolia to this day are technically correct.

they are so united in Rome 2 rise of the republic! only veii works independently, so far never managed to conquer them

🤣🤣🤣🤣

*proceeds to conquer 90% the whole known world* *Etruscans*: Hey I was joking

@@johnkar9657 You would be surprised to know that cyclopian walls are found throughout the Mediterranean, not just in Greece proper. One of the largest known cyclopean walls is actually in Italy, at Alatri. The more you know.

I used the English name also used for those Greek structures because there is no English name for the ones *specifically* in Italy. Here is the wikipedia link, unfortunately it’s in Italian, information in English on the subject is hard to come by. Here is what i am talking about: it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architettura_megalitica_del_Lazio

@@johnkar9657 Cyclopean masonry is hardly a method of masonry that was used only by the Greeks, we have just borrowed their moniker for the style. Some of the most impressive examples of cyclopean masonry come from the Incans.

@@johnkar9657 He is not wrong, these constructions in Central Italy are called like that because of that reason. They were made out of the typical vulcanic stone of Latium, Umbria and Tuscany

@@johnkar9657 I mean that cyclopean masonry is a method of fitting stones together and shaping them so they fit nearly perfectly, it does not mean that the Greeks were the only ones who did it. Examples in the Mediterranean exist as far as Menorca. But as already stated, even the Incans used this method of masonry for their walled cities, albeit they were much more precise in their mastery of the technique.

KYOUSHA Etruscan boar lives on in our hearts 😔

"Boar Vessel, 600-500 BC, Etruscan, Ceramic" After more than 25 centuries, the Etruscans are still influencing our civilization - even our memes!

@The Iron-hearted Wolf boar vessel is a meme

etruscan: dies out

@Harrison _ More like 90% of voters, of both genders.

@@caiawlodarski5339 Why don't you vote for x-party? Because... they are not us! Do you know anything about their policies? *proceeds to regurgitate what their favourite radio hosts whines infactually about everyday*

@Harry Paul because they eventually had the same problems with women as the etruscans... and some other reasons.

@Blade Strikes not the men

same for the persian (iranian), sumerian, phoenician and first and foremost the Islamic civilizations. they all shaped human civilization

Well, yes and no. Of course many minor details in architecture, law, arts, religion etc. would have been different, had the Etruscans emerged victorious over Rome. But Etruria could have taken the place of the Roman Empire in world history, they had all the intellectual capacity for this.

The Roman mindset of expanding is what made the Romans different from other Italic nations. Empires can really only work if they are forever expanding. When they stop, that's when they begin to fall.

Its not wise to subscribe on missleading and lying youtube channel that is telling lies about slavic history,but if you want to know the truth then truth is.That their is no such thing as 'etruscans',their is only Raseny and Rashany,they are slavs who has emigrated from black sea 7528 years ago becouse of the black sea flood.Their name Raseny comes from slavic word Raseyenye,meaning moved away.The language that the 'etruscans' where speaking is better know today as serbo croatian language,and theirs alphabet is known as srbica."Etruscian" alphabet was translated by Svetoslav Bilbija,by using serbian chirilitsa alphabet.PS:Here some reference,Dr Jovan Deretić,Nino Belov 2500BCE,Serbo Makeridov 2500BCE,Aleksandar Karanović 2500BCE,Serbo Raska Empire,Antient Serbia,Slavic Swastika.DONT DEVOLVE BUT INVOLVE AND KEEP ON FIGHTING!!

Withou the fall of Constaninople and sack of Constantinople in 1204 we might be advance in civilization but the discovery of America (I know that it's Lief Erikson) will be late.

Rome: *see a city-state* Also rome: i don't need it... i don't need it... i don't need it... I NEED IIIITTTTTT

"Nice city, I think I'll take it."

same! do u know if there will be a video on caesars death?

The reason Zeus was so promiscuous is that Greece had so many diverse legends about the sky god impregnating this or that female who bears a giant or hero. It indicates that mythological developments were very decentralized in ancient Greece, Greek villages were originally quite isolated from one another and the Indo-European sky god was extremely dominant in Greek mythology with the fertility mother being a later development that came after the breakup of the Proto-Indo-European language. The Etruscans, by contrast, had a much more compact, unified culture (though disunited politically) with easier communication between settlements, so their mythology was shared between settlements as developments occurred, thus was more coherent. It also indicates that the sun god wasn't quite so dominant and was thought of as more the male aspect of the male-female duality that was incomplete without his lunar female partner... the sun rules the day, the moon rules the night.

Etruscan Legacy lives in the Roman one, you are right. We tuscans are proud of it.

Some would say the same of the Germanic groups that would later put the nail on the Roman empire with the sacking of rome

@@samuelademeso9041 Yep. The German ended the Western Roman Empire, and then decided to create a new Roman Empire

Except for the language and extraordinary liberties, I'd rather see the Romans ADOPTING and EXPANDING Etruscan civilization ;)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Etruscan were turks

Were Roman also indigenous?

Similar with the Basques - still present today, and still a mystery. They might even have been there before the Celts.

@@htoodoh5770 the romans themselves were aware they weren't

Etruscian vs Turkic old Alphabet :D

@Ίon ahahahahahahahah what are you even barking about My god Also, you call me uncultured? Apart form the fact that this is a bit of my field (I am focusing on late antiquity and early middle age but I still have a good grasp of Hellenism and classical antiquity) I don't know pal, You are the one that seems to be trigger-happily yapping about some poorly understood notions of classical antiquity acquired on some "greek pagan master race Fanclub" dank recess of 4chan...

@Ίon calm down, nobody thinks you're intelligent, you don't have to pretend

@@sheadoherty7434 He/she was making a joke, sense of humor is a sign of intelligence.

lmao man childs hahah

Have we established thay Aineas and Troy were ever real?

MrLoobu Well Troy yes, Aeneas no. Like all mythical figures he falls somewhere between totally made up and based on some hero or a compilation of heroes from the bronze age. But it’s fascinating that there might be hints after all about the historicity of the connections between the italian peninsula and western anatolia as described in myth.

@@ThrillaWhale Can you link me some definitive troy information? I've never come across anything but i know its an area under active study.

​@@MrLoobu Its amazing how you can't find any information about it, when it was found in the 19th century, its a historical national park. Quick info to read would of course be wikipedia (its very well cited) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy#Troy_Historical_National_Park . There are also a lot books on it, and German scientists are discovering more everyday, especially with new non invasive technologies.

Troy had been discovered and there is often a grain of truth within myths. We know that the hittites spoke an indo-germanic language but they lived in the center of antatolia. But Troy was at the coast of the Aegean and might have had an other language. A non indo-european one. There is also the theory that the fall of Troy and the sea people are connected. And there was wide spread trade in the ancient mediterranean. (The myceneans had trading posts in the Adriatic sea). There fore it's possible that a group of troians knew tuscany due to trade relations fled to that place and later this events became the myth of Aeneas and the romans simply adopted the etruscan story. As a comparison, the vikings pillaged England an the frankish empire, settled there, but they also traded as well, founded a realm in Eastern Europe and had been mercenaries for the byzantine emperor. I don't think that a normal person would have known this in the middle ages and an Egyptian scholar definitely wouldn't have known that the mysterious invaders of his land are also settlers in Central Italy.

​@@alexandrosaiakides4539 Etruscan the rusci peoples are the proto indo european turks which is the anatolians - slavs - celts - scythians - dacians - ilyrians - greeks - persians - armenians etc we are european family

@@alexandrosaiakides4539 Nice try, troll

​@Paulo Ramos As I know and understand etruscans and later passed on latin Italians have many rich european cultures some of their cultures are migrated the Anatolia it is make sense couse the both Anatolia and the Etruscans have indo european roots we are indo european big familiy it is all connected

You ask questions is impossible to find answers to, through normal ways. Open your mind to something more than the world in front of your eyes. Every event, every thought, every dream, of what anyone ever said and done, are stored in Akasha Memeory, a Divine database. With proper training, respect and purity of thought, you can access that database and find your answers. Most people will never believe you, because they're incapable of accessing that library of knowledge, but you'll have your answers. And you'll discover that history taught in schools is mostly a lie, a fantasy story like Game of Thrones.

@@Zamolxes77 t f ?? ='D

@Tecumseh Thanks champ! I appreciate it.

We can discern that the Etruscans came from SCYTHIAN-RUS, I mean its not that difficult its in the name ET-RUSKI (Che/Het-Rusci) meaning kinsman of the Rus, further Etruscan written language was translated long ago to be some sort of old Slavic/Russian by linguists such as Champi, Volansky and Chertkov, also Etruscans bring their own version of the swastika and the first Swastikas were found in Ukraine, Russia and Belorussia so historic territories associated with RUSSIA.

@@scythian-rus5421 That would be Kievan Rus nothing to do with russia, it didn't exist, peter the imposter supposedly dreamt of an Idea of great russian empire but czar nicholas was still sending expeditions over the ural mountains in the late 1800's & early 1900's, that was 200 years later, in the soviet union there was 45+ official languages of soviet socialist republics, what is a republic? An individual identity, a lot of genocide was happening, the old addage of divide & conquer, even today there is no russia, it is a federation, what is a federation? Many little goverments, an unhealthy alliance of central power, took them 300 years for common language old slavonic & countless wars, 300 years of genocide & still happening today, modern history is BS, history is written by the conquerer not the truth

@@viktormogilin307 The history you know of was written by German historians at the head of the catholic church that manipulate stupid Ukrops like you into hating Russia for the sole pupose of controlling you, further Ukraine for most of history did not exist, it only exist at end of Soviet Union, for good portion of history Ukraine was known as Malorussia (Small Russia) Kievan Rus has everything to do with Russia and nothing to do with Ukraine stop embarassing yourself and go home, Ukraine today would be nothing without Russia.

@@scythian-rus5421 & your history was run by german blood & I am not what you say, research tells the story😜

@@viktormogilin307 what?

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@James Newstead Yep

@Samuel Díez I heard that they are quite likely to be Originated from Anatolia; being legitemate indeginous anatolians similiar to hittites; but there's no official studies about it

@James Newstead I mean you're doing similiar favouritism yourself Admitedly; There're many ancient & modern people that don't gave New innovations to planet

@Aleksa Petrovic Thracians recognized; albeit only barely I heard everyone speak about the Dacians though

I'd love a series on those peoples, early Italy and it's people don't get enough coverage.

I am from the south, from the Campania region and my city was founded by a Norman count, a barbarian count named Rainulfh drengot, my region was under barbarian rule for 700 years after the fall of Rome.

Whaaaa?

Hahaha Linkin Park

Well, in the end it doesn't even matter, does it?

in the end

@@KingsandGenerals The famous chair of the Etruscans Selacurules, first portable chair ever have an Albanian name "Çel_a_kur_ulesh" in Albanian means it's open when you seat down Çel = Open â = it's Kur = when Ulesh = sit down

I had some dried salted llama once. It was disgusting. Nothing personal. Just a memory from the old days. Roast llama tastes like roast camel. Not surprising, both camelids. Give me buffalo any day.

We have deciphered it. It is mentioned in the video.

@@parthbonde2106 I think it is easy to read as it is in greek script, but most words meaning are unknown as far as I know. There is no Rosetta stone equivalent sadly and no other language appears to be related.

All the existing inscriptions had been translated, but, since they are mainly burial texts the vocabulary we know is still pretty limited.

@@LuisAldamiz Most similar translation of Etruscan points at southeast European group, Serbian, Bulgarian, Proto Slavic.FIrst decoded by Czech linguist Bezih Rozni. Even today when I read his translation, it almost sounds identical to Serbian.

@@milosstefanovic5002 no it doesn't. Enough with the nonsensical pseudoscience.

seems like rome used to conquer other civilizations, but they loved to assimilate culture and religion. Rome was so amazing, cultural and religion tolerance , the only thing I hate about Rome is that they had slaves all it's history.

Then the Christians burned the temples...

@@v44n7 Yes but no, they hated barbarians and peoples generally "lesser" as them. Half romans were shunned if their father was of foreign blood.

@@v44n7 also USA had slaves.

@I Am cry more

see the fear in my enemy's eyes...

Then they died of stomach cancer...or arsenic poisoning......

1000 years later: Romans: "I used to rule the world..." Another 1500 years later: British: "I used to rule the world..." Wonder who will rule the world 2000 years from now... And what the "world" will be by that time 🤔

Luis Aldamiz Humans: *Existing for hundreds of thousands of years* You: We won’t last 2000 more years. Me: Boi

@@LuisAldamiz lol I wrote it for fun, not serious debate xD Didn't you notice? To be serious though, I agree with @luis brito his point. Also, a single ethnicity and language will never exist, neither will a *unified* global civilization. That's got to do with the major cultural differences each country has compared to other countries. Unless people have been raised in a multidisciplinary intercontinental environment, there's a high chance that they cannot even imagine the difference between major cultural differences and their impact on the world. Not to mention the minor cultural differences 😬 And no, the difference between an afro-american and a white american isn't intercontinental, because they're both american 😉 So no, there'll never be *one* earth nation. Though I do believe that co-operation between all different cultures and countries *is* a possibility 😀

@Osman Oglu It ment that they (romans) took things as they were but etruscans gave meaning to meaningless things in their religion. And he said something on the lines of "etruscans are very superstitious"

You must be very old.

@@EJProject I think I heard it in voices of the past

@Osman Oglu No problem mate, have a good day

@@andrei1637 U heard a ROMAN saying something ? In which era do u live mate?