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How did polytheistic religion based civilizations differ from montheistic religion based civilizations?
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Polytheistic civilizations tend to develop bureaucracies faster than monotheistic societies: used to the idea of a separate god for each aspect of the world, the idea of a different official for different problems appeals to the polytheistic mindset.
Monotheistic civilizations (and to a degree, dualistic civilizations) develop scientific knowledge much faster though; used to the idea of all creation being created by a single Divinity to the same rules, the idea that all nature obeys one set of logical laws appeals to the monotheistic mindset.
Note that this a broad generalisation. Also, the border between the two is often fuzzy: Greek scientific knowledge flowered after Socrates proposed obedience to 'the inner God' of conscience as higher than obedience to anything else; while the Papal City's bureaucracy expanded out of control with the standardisation of patron saints.
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