WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bethlehem is situated on the Judean Mountains. The city is located 73 kilometers (45 mi) northeast of Gaza City and the Mediterranean Sea, 75 kilometers (47 mi) west of Amman, Jordan, 59 kilometers (37 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel and 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) south of Jerusalem.

Detailed explanation-2: -Judaea, now part of modern day Israel, had been a Roman ally since the second century BC and became a Roman province in 6 AD. Decades later, it was descending into chaos. Local people had begun to rebel against Roman rule.

Detailed explanation-3: -Judaea was a Roman province which incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, and extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Judea. It was named after Herod Archelaus’s Tetrarchy of Judaea, but the Roman province encompassed a much larger territory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Judea or Judaea (/dʒuːˈdiːə/ or /dʒuːˈdeɪə/; from Hebrew: , Standard Yəhūda, Tiberian Yehūḏā; Greek: , Ioudaía; Latin: Iūdaea) is a mountainous region in the southern Levant traditionally dominated by Jerusalem, and now part of the modern States of Palestine and Israel.