Notes Roman Road Henderson County Roads.
The Romans Road in “Post-Christian” North America?
https://www.goodsoil.com/blog/gospel-knowledge-deficiencies-1/
Three words are employed by the Roman jurists to denote a road, or a right of road, Iter, Actus, Via. The different meanings of these three words are given under Servitutes, p1032
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Viae.html
Roman road ruins in Israel
https://www.biblewalks.com/romanroads
Map of Henderson county
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/apps/arc/maps/storage/texas_media/imgs/map04890.jpg
https://romanenvironment.wordpress.com/roads-of-the-roman-empire/
https://milestones.kinneret.ac.il/en/roman-roads-in-the-palestine-exploration-fund-survey/
Over 40 highways were built in the province of Iudaea/Palaestina between ca. mid 1st to mid 4th centuries, totalling in about 1000 Roman miles of paved roads. This communication network is the most important construction project of the Imperial administration in the province.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78410/15-ways-highways-changed-america
In 1919, shortly after the end of World War I, a military convoy comprised of 81 vehicles set out from Washington D.C. for the west coast. Two months and numerous breakdowns later, the convoy limped into San Francisco. While the main purpose of the mission had been to test the unit’s mobility over rugged terrain, it would also prove—particularly to a young Lieutenant Colonel named Dwight Eisenhower—the importance of a national highway system. Nearly a hundred years later, and more than 50 years after Eisenhower, as president, authorized construction of the 47,000-mile long Interstate System, America is a vastly different country.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-new-roman-roads-techn_1_b_1577636
“Broad is the road that leads to destruction… Narrow is the road that leads to life.” (Matthew 7:13-14)
https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-47/on-road-with-paul.html
The Stoic philosopher Epictetus (d. about 135) declared, “There are neither wars nor battles, nor great robberies nor piracies, but we may travel at all hours, and sail from east to west.”
New Testament archaeologist W.M. Ramsay concludes, “The Roman roads were probably at their best during the first century after Augustus had put an end to war and disorder.… Thus St. Paul traveled in the best and safest period.”
Plutarch writes about one official’s work:
“The roads were carried through the country in a perfectly straight line, and were paved with hewn stone and reinforced with banks of tight-rammed sand. Depressions were filled up, all intersecting torrents or ravines were bridged, and both sides were of equal and corresponding height, so that the work presented everywhere an even and beautiful appearance. Besides all this, he measured off all the roads by miles … and planted stone pillars as distance markers.”
During his first missionary journey, after he crossed inland from the southern coast of Turkey, Paul used the Via Sebaste, a road built under Augustus in 6 B.C., which connected six military colonies, including Antioch in Pisidia. Much of his other travels in Galatia and Phrygia, however, were on unpaved tracks.
During his second missionary journey, after landing at Neapolis, Paul took the Via Egnatia from Philippi to Thessalonica. This major highway was built by the Romans after they had taken over Macedonia in 148 B.C. It spanned Greece and was eventually extended east beyond Philippi to Byzantium. Paul left this road when he went south to Berea, but he must have taken it later when he evangelized Illyricum (Yugoslavia; see Rom. 15:19).
After landing at Puteoli, Italy, Paul traveled the most famous Roman road, the Via Appia, the road from Rome to points south, which had been built in the third century B.C.
The official messenger system, the Cursus Publicus, used couriers who changed horses at stationes every 10 miles, or at mansiones every 20 to 30 miles. They were expected to cover 50 miles per day. The same messenger (rather than a relay of messengers) carried such important tidings as the death or accession of an emperor. A courier could travel from Rome to Palestine in 46 days, from Rome to Egypt in 64 days.
That’s because Christians were urged to practice hospitality for traveling believers. The elder John, for example, commended his friend Gaius for opening his home to traveling preachers: “You are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers even though they are strangers to you.… You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God” (3 John 5, 6).
https://www.biblewalks.com/romanroads
Pictures of roman roads in israel
http://www.skinnerfamilynw.org/history/Skinner%20Toll%20Road.htm
trains were daily met by stage-coaches and freighters "at the end of the rails, wherever thut might be."
It was no coincidence that Christianity spread mainly to the north and west from Palestine. The network of roads built and protected by the Roman armies provided relatively easy access from Jerusalem to the cities of Asia Minor, Macedonia, Achaea and on to Rome. Paul alone is estimated to have traveled nearly 10,000 miles by land and sea during four missionary journeys through the Mediterranean region.
Jeffrey L. Sheler, "The First Christians," U.S. News & World Report, April 20, 1992.
The Road moves and controls all history. The material rise and decline of a state are better measured by the condition of its roads than by any other criterion.
British author Hillaire Belloc, The Highway and Its Vehicles, 1926, quoted in Borth, Christy, Mankind on the Move, page 10.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/quotes.cfm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWckGAqO7CA