#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

12425.628 - 12450.162 Gregory Aldrete

It's kind of based around the cycle of the Nile flood because it was so predictable and everything depended on it. And their whole religion actually develops around that. And in Mesopotamia, the same thing. The way their religion develops is a reaction to the particular geographic environment that those people grew up in. So that's a very profound influence on civilization.