RELIGIONS
JUDAISM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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he enslaved them
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he took them back to Jerusalem and helped them rebuild the Temple
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he set the Jewish slaves free and they were able to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple
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both a and c
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Detailed explanation-1: -A brilliant military strategist, Cyrus vanquished the king of the Medes, then integrated all the Iranian tribes, whose skill at fighting on horseback gave his army great mobility. His triumph over Lydia, in Asia Minor near the Aegean Sea, filled his treasury with that country’s tremendous wealth.
Detailed explanation-2: -Herod the Great rebuilt the Temple in 20-18 BCE. The Jews led a revolt and occupied Jerusalem in 66 CE initiating the first Roman-Jewish war.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shortly after Babylon’s fall, Cyrus liberated the Babylonian Jews who had been forced into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar II after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem 50 years earlier. Released from their Babylonian exile, many returned to their spiritual home in Jerusalem.