WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -To all its subject peoples, Rome granted religious toleration as long as they also honored Roman gods. The Roman religion included many major and minor gods headed by the sky god, Jupiter. In Roman belief, a sort of contract existed between the people and their gods.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ancient Romans practiced it for probably around 600-700 years (from about 300BC to around 300-500AD). Of course, the ancient Romans absorbed a lot of the Greek gods and religious practices after they began expanding their empire. The ancient Greeks practiced it in some form all the way until around 800AD.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the fall of the Roman republic, the pantheon of gods was thought to include their current emperor, so it was considered a capital offense not to acknowledge, accept, or honor his divinity.

Detailed explanation-4: -The standard view of paganism (traditional city-based polytheistic Graeco-Roman religion) in the Roman empire has long been one of decline beginning in the second and first centuries BC.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Roman religion tended to build on the Greek religion. They believed in many gods which they worshipped in temples. In the temples there would be a statue of one of the gods and the Romans would give food, flowers or money to the statues which they believed then went to the gods.