Conquered peoples would trade their defeated god for the victorious god of their conquerors and eventually there would be a cultural and religious assimilation, intermarriage.

胜利者所信仰的神,自然就取代了被征服民族的神,最终就产生了文化，宗教间的,同化和通婚现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

PS we've already gone through anti-miscegenation kinds of restrictions on marriage. -Yes.

而且，我们已经经历了“反对种族通婚法“这样的事,那是对于婚姻的一种限制，-是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选