[CarrotAndStick]

*Yawn*

I meant ancient Indian/ Persian philosophies have influenced ANCIENT Roman/Greek civilisations (and probably the vice-versa). Nothing to do with Christianity.

[RobbyS]

Maybe for simplicity's sake we should say "Persian-Indic." India is, after all, a whole subcontinent (like Europe). with deep cultural divisions. It is perhaps no mere accident that Islam never overran the whole region but onlyt made inroads in the areas touched by Middle-Eastern peoples.