Religion of Rome

 Religion to the Romans was very important they believed highly in gods and during this era cults were heavily practiced under the Roman rule. The Romans religion was based heavily off of a array of taboos, rituals, superstitions and traditions they had learned over the years. The religion was not spiritual based but instead more of the belief of being able to control people's existence and well-being. The Romans believed that their gods were all related and typically people told stories or myths about them. The most important gods to the Romans were the Greek gods from Mount Olympus. The Greek gods were given Roman names, for example, Zeus became Jupiter. Eventually Christianity took over the Roman Empire and became the foundation of their government along with the basis of many of the architecture today. Christianity first started in Rome as another foreign religion. Christians were sometimes persecuted because they refused to worship Jupiter, and because of the rumor that they ate "human flesh." As time went by the first emperor Constantine The Great converted the empire to Christianity.