HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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Romans
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Jews
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Samarians
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Detailed explanation-1: -After Solomon’s death, the land was divided into two kingdoms: the kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judaea. In 63BC, the Romans conquered the land and called it Palestine.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In the following centuries, the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires conquered the region. The Ptolemies and the Seleucids vied for control over the region during the Hellenistic period.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire (circa 722 BCE), and the Kingdom of Judah by the Neo-Babylonian Empire (586 BCE).
Detailed explanation-5: -In the late 2nd century BCE, the Hasmonean Kingdom conquered most of Palestine and parts of neighboring regions but the kingdom gradually became a vassal of Rome, which annexed the area in 63 BCE.