I’ve suspected that Ancient Rome evidently had a bigger contribution to Christianity than one would realise. By the time Jesus was born, Israel was practically part of the Roman Empire and Christianity spread to Europe during and after Roman times. There’s even a book in the Bible called Romans and due to the Mediterranean, Greek and Latin spread before becoming liturgical languages of sorts.
Russian and Ukrainian use a modified Cyrillic script, many other languages use the Roman script. Along with accompanying superstitions (beliefs in dog witchcraft, also carried over and shared by the Greeks since Greece too became a Roman colony) and virgin goddess worship (becoming Marianism), the Romance languages emerged and former colonies go on to become colonial empires themselves.
The spread of Christianity in Europe (arguably including Armenia) owes to the Roman Empire in one way or another. The Western Roman Empire begat the Holy Roman Empire (parts of Germany which gave us Martin Luther!) and the Byzantine Empire begat the Eastern Orthodox Church.
By sheer geographical luck, the Mediterranean helped Christianity spread and the most successful European empires (French, Spanish, Portuguese and British) were all former Roman colonies themselves.
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