Religious freedom and people worshiped in different way. The people in all the ancient Greek city states believed in the same gods and worshiped in the same way. They were not forced to believe they simply believed in them. They spoke the same language. That had a common culture their love of beauty and competition to name two. Their city states were located on the same peninsula.
Credit was a new thing, banks didn’t have the money for loans, to much production and not enough consumers (inflation)
If you're referring to new non-European states that have risen since the Cold War Ended, then the effect has perhaps been minimal in terms of their daily lives, but if they have close relations with the US it would mean a stronger connection.
The process by which cultures become similar to one another; especially refers to the process by which U.S. culture is being exported and diffused into other nations.
