text: Roman conquest of Egypt took place in 30 BC. Your assertion is false ‘Alexandria was under Roman rule in 80 B.C.’   You wrote about me ‘Your knowledge of the world is narrow’. Contrary to you I will not use such words as a result of your mistakes. Besides we write anonymously, what do you know about me?
  
  ‘(the major civilized part of the Greek and Roman Empires was in the Middle East, not western Europe).’ What we call today the Middle East was first part of the Greek empire created by Alexander the Great, then 300 years later it was taken over by the Roman empire, and when it was split between East and West, the region fell under the Byzantine (Greek- speaking) empire. All along the culture and the language of the people was Greek for about 1,000 years.  When the Arabs came they had all the texts, written in Greek, translated by local Christians into Arabic.