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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