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Many religions did or do include a multitude of gods: Egyptian, ancient Greek, Hindu, etc.
Others put their faith in a single god: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, etc.
The Romans had a pantheon of gods which they worshipped. In particular, Jupiter was the chief god, and the god of sky and thunder.
The Romans built temples because they kind of copied the Greek civilizations. After all, they had to worship gods. They had the same gods as the Greeks, but in different names. For example, Zeus in Greece was Jupiter in Roman.
You can change Gods, but you can't worship 2 gods at the same time in the same village (temple).
It's because the relationship of the Romans and Greeks, in that the Roman civilization ruled much of Europe for a very long time and applied the worship of their gods and goddesses: Jupiter, Juno, Pluto, likened them to the Greek Zeus, Hera, and Hades. As the Romans expanded their Empire, they also "adopted" the conquered peoples gods/goddesses into their own and showed those foreign gods/goddesses as aspects of other gods/goddesses.
The Romans invented the claender through their different gods.