Commercial and shipping trade

At the start historical epoch, around about the IX cent. B.C., it began to spread a phenomenon of deep transformation of the habitation of the Etruria. The population began slowly to abandon the internal habitation sites in favour of the spacious plains at the tufacee base situated next to the coastal front. This choice seems to be determinate by the need to have a direct contact with the sea, the main means of transport for communication and exchanges. The need determined also by the fact that Etruria, in the ancient world occupied the most privileged place, for resources of the precious metal ore present on its territory.

The shipping navigation assumed a primary role in the power of the Etruscans that they were always great seamen, in as much as it could speak of thalassocracy, as defined Diodoro Siculo. Tito Livio in his "Storiae" told that the power of the Tusci, before the dominion of Rome, was largely widespread by land and by sea. He remembered completely the names of the upper and lower seas, from which Italy is surrounded, they formed evidence why it is called Tyrrhenian sea (from the name of the population) and Adriatic from Adria, colony of Tusci placed in the area actually Romagna. Therefore it remembered that at the time of the landing of Enea in Italy their names were noted not only on the land but also on the sea, reaching the strait of Sicily.

The piracy The exchanges, the routes