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• Next came the Greek Empire, and even though the Hellenisation process was starting to occur, and small pockets of Greek speakers could be found outside of Greece and Macedonia, Aramaic was still the spoken language over the whole geographical extent of the previous Assyrian, Babylonian and Medo-Persian Empires.
• And by the time of the Roman Empire, Aramaic was still the spoken language across the Middle East. Despite the rise and fall of kings for many centuries, and wars and more wars, the ordinary people across the Middle East still spoke Aramaic. The more things change, the more things stay the same.