Maybe this has been discussed before, but I really wonder what if the Etruscians, rather than Rome built up an empire... maybe even an empire similar huge as OTL Rome.
They sure need to have much more discipline than they had in OTL (as known, they rather celebrated than doing wars). And the Latins/ Romans need to be somehow weaker. Way weaker.
> How would such a scenario plausibly be possible?
> How far would they spread their empire? Would they conquer just the appenine peninsula or would they be able to spread further?
> What would be their capital?
> How would they react to the Greeks? Would they react to them similar as the Romans did? Or would they see them as an old enemy (because Etruscians were descendants of Troyans)?
> How much would other peoples be "etruscianized"? Lingually; would their language be the root of an European language family? And culturally; would Europe be nicer place for women, for example? (Etruscians were very women-friendly - that's one reason, I like them so much *smile* )
> How long could their empire last?
As you see, there are a lot of fascinating questions.

Would be really nice, if there are the one or another
good, plausible TLs with that topic.
