During the time of the Etruscans, the Italian peninsula was not in any way a single country. Beginning in the 700 BCE, there are records of many different tribes that existed throughout Italy. The many tribes within Italy spoke different languages from each other, approximately 40 different languages, and none of them saw themselves as part of the same people. One of those tribes was the Etruscans and their tribe ranged from the Po river in the north all the way to Naples in the south. Besides the Greeks, the Etruscans were the most advanced people. They built towns on hilltops and were the most powerful group at the time. Rome did not have an individual identity, Rome identified with the Etruscan and Latin Neighbors. Eventually though, as