Different Religions
Since the dawn of man, people have had their own forms of religion. Be
it simple ceremonial burial or complex blessing rituals, each person had their
own way to explain the wonders of nature like, how did we come here and what our
purpose here was. Another thing that each individual person had was their own
morals. Morals are what define a civilization. Labels like peaceful or barbaric
are put on different civilizations because of their morals. The morality of
each civilization defined their religious beliefs.
The lives of people who lived in the early ancient history time period
were tough. They had to roam the land always looking for new game to hunt and
plants and berries to gather. The people weren't united because of all this
traveling, and therefore contact with other people was minimal. Morals are hard
to develop without much contact with other people and so the religion of these
early people was minimal. Then came the development of farming into this time
period. Farming brought the people together. Small cities began to develop
because the people didn't have to move around as much. With all this closeness,
the people developed moral views on what to think about thieves or murderers.
If certain civilizations didn't mind violence and killing, then they developed
into a Brutal civilization. Consequently, the religions of these civilizations
were evolved around sacrificial rituals and allegiance to brutal gods. The
Assyrian civilization worked around this principle. They used scare tactics to
overcome their enemies and treated their captives badl ...