RELIGIONS
JUDAISM
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forced the Jews to practice the Persian beliefs
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this event led to the Jews returning to Jerusalem and eventually rebuilding the Temple
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this event led to all the Jews (every single person alive at that time that practiced Judaism) returning to Jerusalem
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the books of Ezra–Nehemiah, a number of decades later in 538 BCE, the Jews in Babylon were allowed to return to the Land of Judah, due to Cyrus’s decree.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jerusalem fell after a 30-month siege, following which the Babylonians systematically destroyed the city and the First Temple. The Kingdom of Judah was dissolved and many of its inhabitants were exiled to Babylon. During the late 7th century BCE, Judah became a vassal kingdom of Babylon.
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.