Greece, the preceding world power, had provided an international language with which Christian teaching could be carried throughout that part of the world ​ — the Koine, or common, Greek.
रोम, जो एक समय लेटियम, इटेली में एक छोटा शहर था, आगे बढ़कर पुराने बाइबल काल का सबसे महान साम्राज्य बना ।