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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When Babylonian armies destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon’s temple the Jews were exiled, or forced to leave their homeland. The scattering of the Jews to may parts of the world is called?
A
Tradition
B
Custom
C
Monotheism
D
Diaspora
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Diaspora, (Greek: “Dispersion”) Hebrew Galut (Exile ), the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile or the aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities scattered “in exile” outside Palestine or present-day Israel.

Detailed explanation-2: -They were entitled to earn a living as tradesmen or farmers, but were not allowed to be part of guilds or to own farmland. The Jews became poor and the king could no longer collect taxes from them. Many hundreds were arrested, hanged or imprisoned. And then finally in 1290, they were banished from England altogether.

Detailed explanation-3: -Taxes that were once paid to the temple were now paid to Rome, and the Jewish tradition of worshipping in the temple was over. With only the Western Wall remaining of the temple in Jerusalem, the local synagogues now became the new centers of the Jewish religion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The return to Zion 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.

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