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How Did Mesopotiefs Influence The Environment And Religious Beliefs?

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How much does a society’s environment and experiences influence the nature of its values and religious beliefs? It is a question that we as a human being should ask ourselves daily in our life. The collective nature off society environment and experiences will and indefinitely affect their religious belief. It affects people in their daily lives, in everything they want to do or they don’t want to do. Unconsciously it becomes part of human’s life no matter how hard they try to ignore it once they adapt it it’s hard to get rid of such influence. People in the past has experienced it as well as people of modern world.
One of the oldest civilization that was affected by the society’s environment and nature was Mesopotamia. There are many ways in which a society can be affected. Mesopotamia was a polytheistic system, which means that they believed and prayed to multiple gods not just one. Mesopotamia culture states that the gods and deities they believed in were living realities who affected their life (Spielvogel 11). The Mesopotamian believed their god or goddesses were living realities who affected their life style, they had leaders who rule and prepare armies if they had to go to the war. The priests played huge role in Mesopotamian culture, priests oversaw taking care of deities. Priests would tell the leaders what they should do in return of benefits in their wealth, health, soil etc. they people of Mesopotamia believed if their deities are unhappy they will punish them

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