Why did Vespasian allow the imperial cult to emerge only in the provinces beyond Italy and not in Italy itself?
A) The imperial cult would have upset traditional Roman sensibilities.
B) Vespasian sought to use the imperial cult to suppress the new religion of Christianity that was spreading in the Near East.
C) The Hellenistic regions of the Roman Empire in North Africa and the Near East were more open to emperor worship than Italy or Greece.
D) He recognized that imposing an imperial cult predicated on submission to the emperor would help put down rebellions outside of Italy.
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