The difference with Christianization in Europe (besides the Baltics) was that it wasn't brought by foreigners on the edge of the sword who imposed it on the entire population. The Germanics did not have any advanced civilization before Christianization, so obviously we don't know as much of their culture as we do of the Persians. As a result of Christianization, the Germanics became more powerful and eventually managed to colonize most of the world, while the Iranians became weaker as a result of Islam and became the buttmonkey of every single grug tribe in the region. So much about Iran is Arab, from the fact that most of the names are based around the desert barbarians who brutalized the Iranians to the fact that their language is called Farsi, owing to the fact that Arabs cannot pronounce the letter &quot;p.&quot; <|endoftext|> 