I believe this would be true considering the had lost the civil war
I'm pretty sure the answer is C he built a steam boat called the North River steamboat also known as the Clermont.
This statement is true. He was a single child and was sickly most of his childhood and he learned to read only when he was eight, which was odd considering that he was already writing stories at the time, that is, he didn't write them himself but rather dictated stories to his Mother or his Nurse who would write it down for him before he learned to do it himself.
The rulers of Italy before the Romans were the "Etruscans", although it should be noted that the Etruscan dominance of the region was not even close to the Romans' in terms of power and political nature.