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Rome controlled the Mediterranean world, the roman empire was extremely powerful and had huge armies. Rome controlled the countries from 31bc to 467ce. Latin and Greek where the main languages in the roman empire, but other languages where important regionally. Most of the people would go to the main cities like Thessalonica in Greece, Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in the East and the people travelled by road and sea but tried to avoid the roads because there where a lot of bandits and thieves who would steal goods.

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Map of the mediteranian world

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After Saul converted from a Jew to a Christian. From that day on he started preaching the word of the lord to Christians and Jews. Soon after as he journeyed Paul gained a large amount of followers and then travelled to the roman empire to spread the news.

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On Pauls first missionary journey he and Barnabas where told by the holy spirit to go and spread the good news of Jesus. Paul, Barnabas and their other friend John Mark from Syria Antioch.  To start off there journey the took a boat to Salamis which is in Cyprus which was where Barnabas. As they arrived the proclaimed the words of God to the Jews in the synagogues. Paul and Barnabas then travelled through the Mediterranean Sea and arrived in Paphos. In Paphos Paul punished a bad man for being a false prophet and lying about Jesus to the governor. Soon after the governor realised and turned Christian. Paul and barnabas then took another trip to Persia where john mark then turned around and decided to go home.

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Paul started to write letters because he was locked up in jail and obviously had a lot of spear time and thought he should put his energy into something worth while. The main message in all of the gentiles where that he was sent by god to spread the word of Christianity.

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Paul had a happy and joyful life, due to doing what he loved, preaching the word of god. He had a lot of challenges and boundaries, such as beatings, getting ill, exhaustion, imprisonment and more. After Pauls conversion, everyone was scared if him and doubted him because of his previous behaviour. Paul also faced a major cultural challenge which was circumcision. Circumcision was done by everybody but Paul thought differently. He thought god would love anyone wether they had been circumcised or not.

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Paul wrote letters that had messages inside. Some can be interpreted. Such as Philippians 2:1-5. This letter talks about being united with Christ and to not be selfish by putting other before yourself. He also talks about following in God you will find love and comfort with his help.