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What if Rome and the Italian peninsula had further adapted to the "Oriental culture" ? It depends on the timeframe, what culture they adapt to. Whether North African, Egyptian, Persian, Crescent is up to you. Can be Helleneized, though. Hellenic culture already had manifestated in the regions we call Orient. Orientalization scenario can also happen even before Rome come to power as an Empire and before full Hellenization of the Romans. Can also happen during late Antiquity. Also the Eastern Roman Empire can be used for the pod.
OTL there had been fears concerning an Orientalization of Rome through marriage of Antonius and Cleopata and the manifestation of an Eastern monarchic despotic kingdom. Cesar might have had similiar ambitions. Later cults from various provinces spread across the Empire.
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