"In an age where information moved so slowly" Information would move quite fast within the Roman empire, especially in the Mediterranean basin. There was a nev

"In an age where information moved so slowly" Information would move quite fast within the Roman empire, especially in the Mediterranean basin. There was a neverending circular movement of goods and people there. Soldiers, mariners, businesspeople, bureaucrats, learned men. Getting from Roman Palestine to Greece by ship was probably faster than getting from Roman Palestine to interior Syria by caravan.