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Hardly, while the Philippine did have some kimited form of self government after the Philippine-American War, it was a still very much a colony of the United states. I would argue that it wasn't...

Except that's not true at all. We know the Indo-Greek State still associated themselves with the Greek gods, but in a more of cultural rather religious way. As I before, there's a lack of Greek...

We largely don't know. It seems that most of greeks practiced in an Iranian style temple, with Gods that are reminiscent of Greek deities, but are probably local gods. Buddhism seems to only become...

We actually don't know much about Hellenistic India (it's not exactly in the most stable friendly of places), but one curious fact was the lack of Greek temples, we have not found a single specific...

He pretty much did want to destroy the influence christianity had in the empire. Secondly, while Julian didn't officially persecute christians, he encouraged pagans and dissident christians to...

Nope. Ancyra is commonly more known as Ankara in Turkey, and Caesarea is in Israel. Secondly, it's anachronistic too talk about Themes during Julian the apostate's time.

He was a bishop, all the...

In my defense, you self referred to the bishop of Caesarea, rather then bishop of Ancyra (who's rather more obscure too say the least).

Except that isn't true. Basil of Caesarea died because of some sort of health problem during the reign of Valens in 370s, during the persecution of Arianism. In fact, Julian the Apostate went too...

It should be remembered that the definition of who is Greek has always been somewhat murky, even during Alexander's time, there were Greeks who argued that the Macedonian people were semi-hellenized...