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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A group of Jews called the ____ urged their fellow Jews to rise up against the Romans in AD 66.
A
Rosh Hashanah
B
Zealots
C
Mosaic
D
Romans
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In AD 70, the Romans gave the Jews their independence.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Zealots were a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70).

Detailed explanation-3: -In the fall of ad 66 the Jews combined in revolt, expelled the Romans from Jerusalem, and overwhelmed in the pass of Beth-Horon a Roman punitive force under Gallus, the imperial legate in Syria. A revolutionary government was then set up and extended its influence throughout the whole country.

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