The Influence of the Etruscans on Rome

The etruscans not only ruled over rome, they also heavily influenced its early culture. The city came to be known as romulus, which the later day romans gave to the mythical king who supposedly built the city. Around 600 b c, those latin speaking people in the settlement that we can now officially call the new city of Rome, borrowed one more thing from the etruscan civilization - the alphabet. And once the romans were done with it, they had created an alphabet which is basically the samephabet which we use to day in modern english.