Within the three ancient societies, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Rome, there are many basic similarities shared through their religions. The three ancient societies have Gods or higher being they believe in. All three based a large part of their existence towards their religion and their Gods. They also accepted religion as an influence on the way their civilizations were ruled. But, where the societies differ is within a broad topic concerning a simple question. With any civilization that has ever been thought to exist there has been death to deal with, which has brought up that one simple question; ‘What happens after death and is there an afterlife?’
Ancient Mesopotamia was made up of many different people and towns but was ultimately one civilization in the time period of _____. There civilization did believe in an afterlife, but no historical conclusion can be made as to whether it was happy or not. Which makes me wonder why people need to have a definite answer as to why it has to be happy or bad. If one examines the Mesopotamian era, you find that they were polytheistic, a belief in many gods. The fact that many of these gods has natural aspects such as earth, wind and fire, like the musical group, it shows they only

Describing the overall view of the afterlife of ancient Rome can be done very simply through the phrase ‘Non Fui, Fui, Non Sum, Non Curo.’ It basically describes the stages of their life with ‘Non Curo,’ being the most relevant part to their view of the afterlife. Non Curo means ‘I don’t care.’ They did not want death to come at all. The Romans also had many Gods, all of which had powers that affected their daily lives. Again this shows they put much emphasis on their daily lives and needed something more to achieve daily goals and explain minor misfortune. Since those who believed in the afterlife that it was negative thought it, one might think death was feared. Having a fear of death would provide different feeling than most societies had. It might have been the Romans prepared themselves very well for battles, so they did not lose or die. This would explain how they grew to such a strong empire. It could also be though they cherished each day and cared about what was going on in their society, which explains an early democratic government. All this based on the fact that after death; there was no more glory to be had. For others the afterlife did not exist, so it makes sense that they believed there were more important things to be thought about and accomplished. An afterlife