The ancient religions of Rome and Egypt had many points in common. Both cultures were polytheistic, meaning that they both worshiped many gods, rather than one. In both Rome and Egypt, religion was seen as a civic duty, and rulers were sometimes deified.

In the political sphere, we find that the Egyptian civilization had stronger emphasis on central authority, while the Greeks had a more decentralized structure, where powers were distributed over the cities and the states as well.

Greeks and Egyptians are related sincce all humans are related. They are not closely related or to put it more precisely Greeks are related to other Europeans and to their neighbors in Turkey first and to a much smaller degree to people from the Levant and even less to people from Egypt.

Narmer

Romans were Latins, which were an ethnicity. Closely related to the Faliscii, they were one of the main tribes of the Italians (which included Oscans, Sabellians, Umbrians). So it does make sense if you take Romans as Latins and not Romans as cives romani.

The areas where Roman descent is the greatest is of course modern Italy. People in Italy tend to be a mixture of celts, Germanic Lombards, ancient Etruscans, and of course a very large amount of Latin ancestry, the original name for the Romans. The descendants of the Romans today, are living all across Europe.

When did Italian become the language of Italy? Ancient Romans spoke Latin. Modern Italians speak Italian. Most Romans did not speak Classical Latin – as they were illiterate and far from Rome’s native speakers.

Italian is daughter of Latin. French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian are Latin’s daughter. So they call it Italian and not Latin.

Italian

Italy’s unofficial religion is Roman Catholic. While it is not on paper, Roman Catholicism still plays a major role in Italian culture.

Most Christians in Italy adhere to the Catholic Church, whose headquarters are in Vatican City, Rome. Christianity has been present in the Italian Peninsula since the 1st century….Demography.

In the course of the Risorgimento (the 19th-century movement for Italian unification), the existence of the Papal States proved an obstacle to national union both because they divided Italy in two and because foreign powers intervened to protect papal independence.

By 1861, much of the Papal States’ territory had been conquered by the Kingdom of Italy. Only Lazio, including Rome, remained under the pope’s temporal control….Papal States.

The pope’s proper title, according to the Vatican’s website, is Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of …

9 February 1849