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I think it’s the Abrahamic religions that ended all of this.

The proselytization that is central to Christianity and Islam doesn’t exist in any religion.

Those are the only historic cultures that insist that they are right and everyone else is very wrong. Most historic cultures believed in stuff but didn’t fight and kill for it, primarily because they knew they could learn shit from other cultures.



Interesting you said Abrahamic religions, While impact of chrisianity on Europe, Middle East, Americas has been well documented.

There hasn't been much of discussion or writing about the extinction of cultures, syncretism, open border civs at the hands of Islam.

Greek / Roman / Indian influence in Eurasia to Indonesia is probably another tragedy that the world forgot.

Only pockets like Bali remain from that era now.


Buddhism was the original missionary religion that inspired Islam and Christianity towards proselytization.


The OG Abrahamic religion does not proselytize, quite the contrary. They say it isn't ok to tell another tribe what to think unless they are cannibals in which case saving lives supersedes nonintervention. :)

The sequels however cleverly mixed in a dose of politics and empire building, it isn't part of the religions per-se.

  In hoc signo vinces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_hoc_signo_vinces

Zoroastrians also tried to convert, imagine the wololo move in Age of Empires.




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