The Tanakh explains the history of Judaism until the 500s BCE. It includes many details that are hard for historians to confirm. In one or two paragraphs, give your opinion on how seriously historians should treat religious texts as they try to understand past events and civilizations. Explain your opinion and support it with examples.

I think historians should treat all religious texts very seriously. If we can understand what past civilizations believed in and practiced, we can understand how their civilization could have done better. I think we can learn from these texts, so if we see how past civilizations fell we can prevent it from happening to us in the future.

Explanation:

if im not mistaken its a. collective emotional arousal

it depends on which society you are referring to. many civilization performed rituals so the gods would with their growing season but the most well known is that of the aztecs. they would make sacrifices, usually animals, but sometimes humans as well.