CIVILIZATION
BABYLONIAN
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the Babylonian Captivity
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the Exodus
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the Great Rebellion
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the rebuilding of the temple
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Babylonians besieged Jerusalem, and in March 597 BC the city surrendered. Jeconiah, his court and other prominent citizens and craftsmen, were deported to Babylon. This event is considered to be the start of Babylonian captivity and of the Jewish Diaspora.
Detailed explanation-2: -The King of Judah had refused to pay taxes to Babylon for three years. As a result, Jerusalem was captured by the Babylonians, who declared war on Judah. The Jewish people were forcefully removed from their homeland, and taken to Babylon in captivity.
Detailed explanation-3: -(Inside Science)–In the 6th century B.C., the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, fearful that the Egyptians would cut off the Babylonian trade routes to the eastern Mediterranean region known as the Levant, invaded and laid siege to Jerusalem to block them.
Detailed explanation-4: -The captivity formally ended in 538 bce, when the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, Cyrus the Great, gave the Jews permission to return to Palestine.