Ancient Rome beliefs and practices

The ancient Rome civilization practiced polytheism, the worship of many gods. The main gods that the civilizations religion believed in were, Jupiter, Juno, and Minevra. The romans believed the gods controlled their lives so they would spend lots of time each day worshipping them. The Romans had lots of spiritual practices. They had lots of feast of worshipping gods and goddesses. They also had offerings of food and wine and they Ould have animal sacrifices.  Worshipping would happen in temples where the sacrifices were made. Blood sacrifices were believed to be the best way to communicate with the gods, that’s why sheep were often sacrificed to Jupiter. Most of the temples that the civilization used to practice worshipping to the gods were built for all the gods, these temples were called a pantheon. However some temples were built for only one of the gods. The Romans also worshiped spirits, rivers, tress, and fields.  The Rome religion had an issue with other religions at one point in life. Roman leaders banned certain religions because a Roman leader believed it was a political issue. Romans would be insulted by other religions that only believed in one god, they took it as a insult. A belief the Romans had taken later on was to add gods from the greek religion.