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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which group destroyed the second Jewish temple?
A
Babylonians
B
Romans
C
Mesopotamians
D
Greeks
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jews led a revolt and occupied Jerusalem in 66 CE initiating the first Roman-Jewish war . In 70 CE the Romans reclaimed Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple with only a portion of the western wall remaining (though recent archeological discoveries date portions of the wall to later periods).

Detailed explanation-2: -Destruction of the temple In 70 AD, the Romans destroyed the temple in Jerusalem and looted its sacred contents. With the revolt over for good, huge numbers of Jews left Judaea to make a home elsewhere.

Detailed explanation-3: -As has been well-known for millennia, in either 587 or 586 B.C.E., the forces of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylonia, served a deadly blow to the small and rebellious Kingdom of Judah. They wiped it off the map, deported large swathes of its population, and destroyed its holy temple, the Temple of Solomon.

Detailed explanation-4: -The total destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple was catastrophic for the Jewish people. According to the contemporary historian Josephus Flavius, hundreds of thousands of Jews perished in the siege of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the country, and many thousands more were sold into slavery.

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