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The creation of Gallo-Roman culture made the Gauls different in other ways. The new order was itself much more highly differentiated than iron age societies had ever been. Becoming Roman did not involve becoming more alike the other inhabitants of the empire, so much as participating in a cultural system structured by systemic differences, differences that both sustained and were a product of Roman power.