Very interesting indeed.  There was a great respect for Egypt at the time, in particular Isis / Osiris and the zoroastrian myths which informed some of Paul's ideas and the emergence of Christianity.  On top of that the Greek tradition had made tremendous progress in the addition to knowledge, the invention of democracy and experiments in personal freedom that we inherit today.  But was starting to break into factions, and in the first 2 centuries struggled to progress without a falsifiable scientic method.  The Roman Empire was starting decline too, and into this vacuum emerged Christianity.  There was obviously a need for fair and free trade in a time of chaos, some kind of written contracts, with rules.  Codifying such a thing into a decentralized nostr financial and contract system, that is opt-in, might be a similar interesting experiment.