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What the hell are you talking about
1. Romes first EVER contact with the German people was during the time of Julius Ceasar
2.Mars Roman god of war, the son of Juno and either Jupiter or a magical flower. As the word Mars has no Indo-European derivation, it is most likely the Latinized form of the agricultural Etruscan god Maris. Initially the Roman god of fertility and vegetation and a protector of cattle, fields and boundaries, Mars later became associated with battle as the growing Roman Empire began to expand, and he was identified with the Greek god Ares. He was also a tutelary god of Rome, and as the legendary father of its founder, Romulus, it was believed that all Romans were descended from Mars. Though he started out different he merged with Ares to become what he is today, no hollywood manipulation about it.
3. Troy was Ionian greeks but they were still never german.
And mycean greeks colonized Southern italy during the 7th century and the Eutruscans adopted their gods.
The Greeks brought the alphabet to Etruria before 700 BCE. By the end of the seventh century, Etruscans had adopted Greek mythology and were fortifying their cities with cut stone walls as the Greeks did. Aristocratic banqueting, hunting, and ceremonial games were based on Greek models as well.
Tarquinia Wall Painting
Tarquinia Wall Painting
Meanwhile, the Etruscans' influence began to spread south, near the Greek colonies. In 616 BCE, the Etruscan Lucius Tarquinius Priscus became ruler of Rome.
The Etruscans reached their zenith in the sixth century BCE, expanding north across the Apennines. The Etruscan rulers of the Tarquin dynasty transformed Rome into an urban center, building monumental structures, paving the Forum, and installing a sewer system.
Etruscan art, often inspired by Greek work, thrived, particularly in architecture, sculpture, and painting. Colorful and lively painted figures (left) filled the walls of monumental tombs.
Outside the art world, the Etruscans and Greeks battled for supremacy. Etruscans allied themselves with the Carthaginians to protect against the threat of Greek expansion. When Greeks from Phocaea settled on the island of Corsica, the allies were undoubtedly alarmed. Around 535 BCE they fought a fierce naval battle with the Phocaeans, who won a narrow victory. The Phocaeans lost so many ships, however, that they were forced to abandon the colony. A decade later, a large Etruscan army near the Greek colony of Cumae, in Campania, fell to a much smaller Greek force.
In 509 BCE the Tarquin dynasty came to an end when the people of Rome threw out Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, establishing a republic and changing forever the city-states' relationship to Rome.
Terra-Cotta Horses
Terra-Cotta Horses
Enemies threatened the Etruscans at every turn. Near Cumae, in 474 BCE, Etruscans lost a sea battle to a Greek fleet from Syracuse. An emboldened Syracusan fleet then raided Etruscan sites on Elba and Corsica. In the north, the Gauls continued to attack Etruscans in the Po Valley, as they had since the previous century. Rome and the city-state of Veii began an intermittent conflict around 485 that would not be resolved until 396 BCE, when Veii fell. In Campania, a force including Samnite tribes from central Italy attacked the now-isolated Etruscan colonies, capturing Capua in 423 BCE.
Embattled on all sides, trade disrupted, southern Etruscan cities experienced a recession. Artisanship declined. Fortunately, the fourth century BCE brought an economic and artistic revival. Greek style again influenced Etruscan art, as evidenced above by classical horses from Tarquinia.
The battles, however, continued. The Gauls moved south across the Apennines. From 358 to 351 BCE, Tarquinia fought almost continuously with Rome, until the Etruscans were forced to sue for peace. Around 311 BCE, the Etruscan city-states did what they had rarely done before: They united to fight an enemy. They laid siege to a Roman settlement, Sutri, but had to flee north when defeated.
Roman armies marched at will across Italy by the third century BCE. Still defiant, some Etruscans united with the Samnites and Umbrians of central Italy and the Gauls on the other side of the Alps to challenge Rome. The republic crushed the combined army at Sentinum, in Umbria, in 295 BCE. A decade later, Etruscans and Gauls battled Rome near lake Vadimo, only to fall again to Roman might. By 280 the Etruscan city-states had become subject-allies of the Roman Republic, even supporting Rome when it waged war against the Carthaginians and the Gauls at the end of the century.
Bronze Head of a Boy
Bronze Head of a Boy
The continual wars and economic hardships created social problems, erupting in Volsinii around 265 BCE as a struggle between serfs and aristocrats. Rome razed the city. The Romans also quickly suppressed an Etruscan slave uprising in 196 BCE. In 89 BCE, Rome conferred citizenship on the Etruscans, one of the final steps taken toward their complete Romanization.
Greek Hellenistic artistic styles, including sculpture, could be found in Etruria around 300 BCE (left). In this period and soon after, however, Etruscan art converged with Roman.
Inasmuch as no Etruscan literary works have survived, the chronology of Etruscan history and civilization has been constructed on the basis of evidence, both archaeological and literary, from the better-known civilizations of Greece and Rome as well as from those of Egypt and the Middle East. Contact with Greece began around the time that the first Greek colony in Italy was founded (c. 775-750 BCE), when Greeks from the island of Euboea settled at Pithekoussai in the Bay of Naples. Thereafter, numerous Greek and Middle Eastern objects were imported into Etruria, and these items, together with Etruscan artifacts and works of art displaying Greek or Oriental influence, have been used to generate relatively precise dates along with more general ones. In fact, the basic nomenclature for the historical periods in Etruria is borrowed from corresponding periods in Greece; the assigned dates are usually (though perhaps erroneously) conceived of as being slightly later than their Greek counterparts to allow for cultural "time lag." Thus the Etruscan Orientalizing period belongs to the 7th century BCE (700-600 BCE); the Archaic period to the 6th and first half of the 5th century BCE (600-480 BCE); the Classical period to the second half of the 5th and the 4th century BCE (480-300 BCE); and the Hellenistic period to the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE (300-89 BCE). Etruscan culture became absorbed into Roman civilization during the 1st century BCE and thereafter disappeared as a recognizable entity.
GB2 HISTORY CLASS and stop manipulating facts to further your racist rants.