What was Italy like before greeks settled.

[PALongimanus]

Remember, Greeks only settled in parts of southern Italy. Most of Italy remained the same as it was before the Greeks settled in the south: the Etruscans and Umbrians in the north, the Samnites and Latins (Romans) in the middle, and Messapulians, Apulians, and Italiotes living alongside the Greeks. In terms of warfare between the Italic tribes, many of them (most notably the Etruscans) adopted a Greek-style phalanx. Apart from that nothing really changed about most of the Italic tribes following the Greek settlement.