The mutually recognized need to maintain defenses against these people led to the agreement to hold the combat of the Curiatti and Horatii proposed by Tullus Hostilius and accepted by the Albans.
This group probably overran the cities of its predecessors, the Villanovans, including Felsina, until its expansion was checked by defeat at the hands of Aristodemus of Cumae. Following another battle, this confederation took the hostage Cloelia, who subsequently escaped. The mutually recognized need to maintain defenses against these people led to the agreement to hold the combat of the Curiatti and Horatii proposed by Tullus Hostilius and accepted by the Albans. This civilization's cities of Suturi, Nepet, and Capena fell in short order after the sack of their major city of Veii set up by the defeat of one of their kings, Lars Porsena. For 10 points, name this civilization that was conquered in the third century BCE by the Romans, who succeeded them as masters of Italy.
This group probably overran the cities of its predecessors, the Villanovans, including Felsina, until its expansion was checked by defeat at the hands of Aristodemus of Cumae.
the {Etruscans} [or {Tyrsenoi} or {Tyrrhenoi}; prompt on {Eturians} or {Italics} or {Tuscans}]