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There was the greek coast of what is now modern Turkey, and probably places of what is now Syria or such..

Maybe a certain form of 'neo Baktism' mixed with some focus on a god specially...

Muslims do NOT see Jesus as the Messiah, but as a special Prophet of sort and not as specially Chosen (but important none the less). As far I know, there is some subtile nuance - and clearly NOT Son of God.

Mahayana exported rather well, and notably supplented Theravada in what is now Vietnam I heard (albeit it was maybe top down, from the ruling lords and emperors...).

Some other guys will surely be more clearer and elaborate that I will be on this post, but I will say for now that this is kinda incorrect and not exactly right, as well as too simplified.

It's an old thing of some languages as french and english, Low meaning 'lower ground, down the river, by the sea', and well... Upper (or High for that german dialectal group) 'higher terrain, up the river, away from sea'... And this by the Saint Lawrence. In french, Haut- and Bas-Canada.

Maybe the (Modern) Southern Arabic (which are not as directly related to Arabic actually) languages would fare better then.

Yes, but it's semi this only - this threads implies more like languages of natives as Ojibway or Maya my friend, from what I got.

The problem is, there is the French cinema as an heavy competitor too, and maybe UK's potentially, or such...

A very ASB way I could see that happening for Franco at least would be if suddently some full 100% communist guerrila take over large parts of southern France and destroy Vichy hold somehow... Prompting Franco to perhaps move to deal ancient frontiers arguments and ensure they do do not help...

Fascism is used at times all too often as a catch all for ALL far-right. But Franco was a different thing than Hitler, and Salazar as well. For the hiberian peninsula dictators, it was a more or harsh conservatism with deeply religious roots and a strongmen army side. Nationalist but in a...

Actually, the economy of Italy didn't come as much or only from the church, but the VERY profitable merchants powers as Venise, Genoa, etc... Those guys mattered more perhaps. The power of the Papacy was not as strong, politicially and economically, as you may think. And those mecenes...

Granted, albeit Mithraism had something for it that the Isis cult hadn't - support from peoples of a key imperial institution, the army. However, the Cult of Isis not, and women in those days, well... As far I got it, the Isis Cult have that 'women and slaves and commoners' scorned bit of...

Kinda... doubtfull. Looking at the cliché scandinavian and arguably british 'the tall poppies' syndroma... it sounds a bit, ya know.. For Italy, you had printers and a growing bourgeois proto capitalistic class, to use Marxist parlance - Italy of the Renaissance is a proof that Catholics can be...

The problem with this kind of cults is that the Isis Cult and others where mystery religions, cults of the initiated and all... not made for grand public faiths, I fear. Or so I heard. And frankly, Christianity offer much the same deal to a point perhaps had they been able to competition on...

Eastern pirates could be as ruthless and brutal as well too. ;) Of course, there is always for somes the possibility of conversion.. There was some famous pirates who converted to Islam to serve Ottomans, the Barbary lords and such in OTL... A great treasure is worth a prayer...

BTW, it is not sure what was the Indus Valley Civilisation still. It's debated if it was indo-aryan in nature, or dravidian, or related to munda tribes or Elam of modern Iran, it's not clear.. we have not decyphered the writting/codes-pictures system yet of one. But then, civilisations in...

One may argue that it already happened to a certain point religiously, the debated iranian religion(s) influences on Judaism and perhaps Christianism later on, but it's another debate. (It may also have influenced Buddhism and be a part of what would be Mahayana as well.)

Along possible Lutherian areas perhaps... (As well as Orthodox regions I believe, eastward)

Mogadishu, Somalia? I am not sure if the local sheiks and sultans and the Ottomans would like christians coming in as if they owned the land.. and they may not like the competitions, as this area knew local piracy already.