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Rulers and nations or nationality are not the same. Just because you happened to be conquered for some time doesn't mean, that your language, culture and custom

• pimmen 8y ago
  No, but given enough generations with the new empire odds are culture, customs and language will probably change in the conquered area.
  • vetinari 8y ago
    At the time, nobody really cared about the languages and cultures, they cared mostly about regular payment of the taxes. Language become only important, when you had the ambition to get a job at the royal court or somewhere nearby hierarchy-wise. Since the monarchs were getting married across the entire Europe, it was unknown, which language will be the next hip one. Languages and nations got their prominence only after French revolution, as a new bonding for the statehood, once the monarchs were gone. If something really wanted to change the customs and culture, it were religions, not empires. Not even Roman Catholics managed that, though.