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Rome's 250,000 miles of roads and shipping lanes create the infrastructure that makes Paul's missionary journeys possible.
By the first century CE, the Roman road network stretches across the empire — from Britain to Syria, connected by engineered highways with milestones, rest stations, and military patrols. The Mediterranean, cleared of pirates by Pompey a century earlier, functions as a Roman lake with regular shipping routes. Paul's missionary journeys follow these exact routes: the Via Egnatia across Macedonia, sea lanes from Antioch to Corinth, and roads through Asia Minor. The infrastructure Rome built for military conquest inadvertently becomes the highway system for spreading a new faith.
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