The empire created the conditions for a 'pandemic'-style spread of religion in a meme-o-sphere unadapted to such -- and probably any Mediterranean-wide integrat

The empire created the conditions for a 'pandemic'-style spread of religion in a meme-o-sphere unadapted to such -- and probably any Mediterranean-wide integrated economy would've been similar in that way. Some features of the winning religion seem convergent (e.g. intolerance to rivals). But I think expecting Christianity in particular would be like expecting a rewind of evolution to end up at humans.