Major Contributions to Western Society
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The Hebrew religion was influential in advancing and changing many of the worl's religion's today, especially Christianity. The Old Testament is a contribution both religions use today. The 10 commandments, which are the core ethics of both religions, is also used today, even though it was originally given to Moses from the ancient Hebrew's god, Yahweh. The Golden Rule, treat others as you wish to be treated, is also a contribution from the ancient Hebrew's and Christian's. This ethic affects people everyday. The saying 'Love thy neighbor' also is another one of western society's ethics, which we learned from both religions.
Many Jewish people at the time also started believing that salvation lies in eternity, which many people today believe in.
Major Contributions to Western Society made be the Romans and Greeks
Many Greek and Roman belief's are still in practice today, such as the belief in dignity of man, liberty. The Roman people had the belief that man should be ruled by law. Roman law respected the diffrence's between people and other religions...