Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans

The Greeks, The Romans, The Jews, and the Christians were all important civilizations in Ancient History. Why? Because they all had a hand in forming what is now the government of the United States. All of these people had many similarities and many differences. For instance, the Greeks and Romans both had polytheistic religions, based upon many of the same gods, whereas Christianity and Judaism are Monotheistic Religions, based on parts of the same scriptures.

Christianity is a derivative of Judaism, for instance the �Holy Bible’ contains a slightly altered version of the Jewish Torah, or the first five books of the Old Testament. Judaism worships Abraham, and says that both Abraham and Christ were both just prophets to God. Whereas Christianity shows Christ as a deity along with God. Both religions do, however follow the 10 commandments. The Jews did extend on those and wrote the Talmud, which contained 613 more laws on the same general ideas.

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