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Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world in those days. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their town to register. Luke 2:1 A decree has gone out to the whole Roman world from Caesar Augustus, for its citizens to return to their place of birth for the census. At this time, Rome ruled over a vast empire that stretched from one end of the Mediterranean sea to the other. Many called the Mediterranean sea a Roman Lake because they had conquered every country around it. When the Em...