>be Roma, the Eternal City
>found an empire-civilization that rules the Mare Nostrum
>even your most bitter enemies admire your civilization
>in peaceful times you can chill with them and commerce flourish
>somehow they never adopt your civilization despite how much they like it
If Romanization had triumphed according to picrel, now all Europa would be Roma, we'd be speaking Latin and having temples to the 12 Olympians even in Svalbard (Norway).

>>17827142 (OP)
That coin doesn't say anything about Romanisation succeeding. It's just the range of their coins, so just implies the reach of Roman trade. If coins equaled Romanisation than South East Asia would be Roman.

>>17827348
I never said coins equaled Romanization.
I say
>"Why Romanization did not succeed beyond the imperial borders even though the people who traded with the Romans admired their civilization?"

>>17827386
Political independence and the ability to maintain their own culture and political structures does not induce Roman culture. Gaul, Illyria and Spain all became Roman because they had been under Roman control for centuries, with their societies and independent politics destroyed and they were integrated into the Roman political system with all the things that come with it. Elites take up Latin as a language, then the average person does too after a longer period until the native languages become effectively useless even in normal society and not just elite society. You can't have this without the centuries long political control and integration that the Roman state created.