Religious Beliefs In Ancient Rome

In the years after the death of Christ, religious beliefs such as Bantu, Christianity, and Islamic faith became the center of the civilizations Africa. In the lower regions of Africa, the Bantu tribes based their religious beliefs and lifestyles off of the environment that surrounded them. These tribes where located in Torrid Zones that made it hard to create a settlement for them to live in, making them pastoralist. In the upper regions of Africa, particularly in the North, the Romans used their religious belief to create a central government that would bring the church and State together. Allowing them to expand and control regions through military force and taxation. The Islamic belief system, which consisted of society that called themselves …show more content…
This takeover came about through taxation and complete governmental power, causing the Egyptian Kingdom to lose all their power and fall under the Romans as low life peasants/servers. Before the fall of the kingdom, Egypt was known as a huge source for healthy living and tremendous trade due to the fertile land along the Nile. Making the takeover for Rome a crucial part of their survival as a civilization. Still there was a red flag on how to impose their power over such a vast amount of land and be able to control it …show more content…
This religion, in the Romans eyes, was a way to establish a hierarchical order among the kingdom by setting in a chain of command. Through this new chain of command and religion, the ruling class of Catholics, which was established by Emperors/Caesars and bishops, decided that this religion needed a base structure to fall under bringing about the Church and State. They believed that the Church and State was established by God and mutually reinforced Christian morality. With an established base of power, the lower status peasants began to see the Church and State as a divine order they must follow and guidelines that must be upheld, meaning that the ruling class of Rome had gained the control they desired in Northern Africa and eventually began expanding their power over all of Northern Africa, which included: Carthage, Mauritania, and Numidia. Showing a rapid spread of the religion and the power of the State. Within this kind of power, the ruling class still wanted to have complete control over the peasants and make sure that everything they did was for the Church/State. Eventually giving the Romans a chance to rebirth the tax system in order to renew the support for state religion and in return will renew the unity and vitality of the empire. For the longest time this is how the Romans maintained their power and strived throughout sometime by