The Roman Empire produced cultural convergence outside of Italy, but unevenly. It is not clear that the Romans themselves ever intended to do so, but it became on of their great strengths: getting people of other cultures to buy into Rome.
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This ends up being recursive. There is no point at which either the Mongols or the Romans are homogeneous. Rome's self-conception as a fusion-society goes back to its founding myths. Before the auxiliaries were diversity, the socii were, before that the Latins.
Chinggis Khan's tribal unit breaks with Jamukha and becomes independent for the first time precisely over Chinggis' willingness to recruit a wider and more heterogeneous mixture of mongols.
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We could march this back into pre-history. Hat tip towards
@MilHist_Lee , the 'killer app' of early humans was the ability to manage larger social groups and greater social complexity. Being able to have a tribal group that included members not blood-related. -
Same goes for the development of the state - the ability to tolerate specialization and increasing heterogeneity gives the state the size-and-force advantage to expand. We don't see it because it is easy to miss because we're used to modern systems of social org...
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