CIVILIZATION
BABYLONIAN
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Question
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In 63 B.C.E, 100 years after the war with the Greeks, the kingdom of Judah was conquered by the ____
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Romans
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Greeks
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Persians
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Babylonians
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Roman general Pompey conquered Jerusalem and its surroundings by 63 BCE. The Romans deposed the ruling Hasmonean dynasty of Judaea (in power from c. 140 BCE) and the Roman Senate declared Herod the Great “King of the Jews” in c. 40 BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Judaism under Roman rule When Pompey entered the Temple in 63 bce as an arbiter both in the civil war between John Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus I and in the struggle of the Pharisees against both Jewish rulers, Judaea in effect became a puppet state of the Romans.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Roman politician Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106-48 BCE), better known as Pompey, was one of the greatest generals of his age.
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