Question

How did the Etruscans influence the Roman religion?
A. The Etruscans wrote poems to symbolize animal gods.
B. The Etruscans discouraged the building of temples.
C. The Etruscans created statues of gods in human shapes.
D. The Etruscans emphasized the importance of worshipping a single god.

Answer 1

Answer:

b the etruscans discouraged the building of temples

Answer 2

c. The Etruscans created statues of gods in human shapes.

Explanation:

• The Etruscans' culture exposed the Romans to the ideas of the Greeks and new religious practices.
• The Romans owed the Etruscan their first god's stautue, namely Jupiter's cult portrait commissioned by an Etruscan for the Capitoline Temple.
• The statues which represented Gods in human form inspired Romans to think so about their gods, with the resulting possibilities to bring them into mythologies that then accumulated slowly around them in the form of Hellenic stories often filled with an authentic patriotic dimension.