The new identity (I am a Roman citizen) doesn't replace the old one (I am an Egyptian man), they layer over each other (I used a man for the example above, but female mummy portraits show the same trends). You can see this in many of the provinces - Egypt just has great art.
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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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Which are themselves the products of a multi-millennium arms race in social complexity, because the biggest-social-group typically wins. So we miss subtle group distinctions - Roman vs. Latin or Roman vs. Sabine - that actually mattered a lot to the people at the time.
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Which makes these societies seem a lot more homogeneous than they really were. So we imagine a homogeneous Rome at some early point, but there never was - it's turtles (or diversity) all the way down.
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