Excerpt from A History of the World, From the Earliest Records to the Present Time, Vol. 2: Ancient History, From the Accession of Philip of Macedon to the Roman Conquest of Carthage and AsiaRome and her empire - Its relation to Italy - Description of the Peninsula - The Alps and Apennines - Comparison with Greece - Natural unity of Italy - Its primi tive inhabitants - Its three chief stocks - The Iapygian race - The Italian race -its two divisions, Latin and Sabellian - The Etruscans - Their country - Their origin - Tyrrhenians and Rasenna - The Etruscan Language - Their early power by land and sea - Relations to Greece and Carthage - Their decline and con.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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