Religion's Role In Western Civilization

Western Civilization began from 400,000 to 1,000 B.C.E. at Mesopotamia and Egypt where those two countries, including the eastern Mediterranean and Greece, exchanged their ideas, technologies, and cultures into the Western Civilization from the means of trade, travel, and war conflict (Hunt et al., p. 4).” The term “civilization” is by historians as “a way of life based on urban societies such as agriculture and trade, government, technology, textile, and the knowledge of writing (p. 3).
Religion played a huge role in the western society because people actually believed that the gods were superior rulers who watched over the humans, provided guidance, and rewarded or punished humans in their everyday lives. Hierarchy, a system of ranking