promise, engagement; or a belief not based on proof; or it may refer to a particular system of religious belief, such as in which faith is confidence based on some degree of warrant, the theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will” the Romans instead took on religion as less of a spiritual experience and more of an orthopraxic one, a contractual relationship between Romans and gods by means of participating in superstitions, rituals and precessions to appease the gods and to receive something in return (Roman religion). When Rome began to gain a spherical influence in the Mediterranean, they began to feel excessive amounts of national pride, and with this came monuments, artifacts, philosophical
