Skallagrim
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If they survive long enough, Hellenistic states can colonize the New World and Australia, making those extensions of the Hellenic world, and then industrialize and try to conquer everything else. Romance and Germanic countries were able to do much of that.
But in this case it's not just Europe going on the Scramble for Africa and colonization of Asia, but also the entire Middle East is colonizing, and India is colonizing, and both of them are Hellenistic.
True! There is certainly a lot of potential for that kind of thing, but I do think you'd start to see serious "dilution" of the Hellenic cultural influence. My point is that if cultural hybridisation is the key factor from the outset, that will likely remain the natural method of co-opting new cultures. Very dynamic, very interesting, and potentially a very stable way of maintaining continuity... but it does mean that the original culture that started the process (in this case Hellenic culture) becomes ever less dominant. Up to which point can we still say that we're creating a Hellenic world, rather than a world shaped by various post-Hellenic hybrid cultures (which at some point will hardly be Hellenic at all, anymore)? Does something still count as 'Hellenic' if it's only very inderectly influenced by a Hellenic progenitor culture?