The Appenine Peninsula is among the most ancient locations where man appeared.

The first human settlements date back to the very first human colonizations well over 200.000 years ago when the fleets landed on the coasts.

In fact ruins from that ancient period still exist, from then Italy was always inhabited though the land came to true prominence only approximately 20.000 years ago when a trading people settled there and from it came to dominate the black and mediterrenean seas for almost 8000 years, their ruins still dot the coasts though more often are sunken off the coasts.

Of note is that Italy was among the final places in Europe where non-human peoples remained well into the age of man albeit in greatly diminished numbers.

The central and souther Apenine ranges still host their well preserved settlements and a few vast pre-human cities from an even earlier age when much of mediterrenean was a great, fertile lowland in which these people prospered.