RELIGIONS
JUDAISM
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Question
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What happened to the Israelites after the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem?
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they took the Israelites to far away Babylon as slaves (the Babylonian Exile)
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they were enslaved by the Persians
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they were set free by the Cyrus the Great
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none of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -After the exile, Judah was politically rebuilt as a Persian satrapy, a semi-autonomous administrative province, ruled by a priestly elite that remigrated from Babylonia and whose views and attitudes were shaped by the religious blue-prints for reconstruction drafted in the exile.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Babylonians conquered the kingdom of Judah, part of the Jewish population was deported into slavery. Although Cyrus the Great, the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, permitted the Jews to return to their homeland in 538 bce, part of the Jewish community voluntarily remained behind.
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