Etruscan+Timeline

 Etruscan | Timeline 11th and 12th centuries: - Small self-sufficient farming villages began forming through out the Etruscan region. (Bonfante 50)

11th and 10th centuries B.C.: - More complex pottery and sculptures and bronze work began to be created. (Bonfante 50)

9th century B.C.: - Trade increases between different Etruscan settlements. (Bonfante 50)

8th Century: - Labor becomes more divided into separate professions and an upper-class emerges. (Bonfante 51)

7th century B.C.: - Greek influencer changes art and way of life (Bonfante 52) - Commerces increases with other Mediterranean countries. (Bonfante 52)

5th Century B.C.: - Etruscan ships attack Cumae and are defeated (Nardo 77) - An alliance of Cumae Greeks and Latins defeated Porsenna at Aricia (Nardo 77)

4th Century B.C.: - Carthage launches offensive against Greek-Sicilian cities, they were defeated (Nardo 77) - Greeks at Cumae initiate a new conflict (Nardo 78) - Cupua falls to Samnite (Nardo 78) - Veii, a major city state, enters battle with Rome (Nardo 78) - Veii ambushes group of 300 Romans near a fort (Nardo 80) - Veii is laid seige to by the Romans (Nardo 81)

3rd Century B.C.: - Romans dig a tunnel under Veii (Nardo 81) - A 40 year truce is negotiated between Etruscans and Rome (Nardo 84)