The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of ...

The Roman siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War lasted “mere weeks” overturning previous beliefs of a ...

By the beginning of the first century AD ... laws that allowed Jews protection to worship as they chose. Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies ...

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In the first century ... due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising ...

It was erected as part of King Herod the Great’s expansion of the Second Temple, initiated in 19 b.c. The Romans destroyed the Temple in the First Jewish–Roman War in a.d. 70. The Western Wall ...

It is possible that former Jewish soldiers of the Roman army led the rebels to a series of significant ... This shift and the fact that leadership in the first part of the war came from Roman ranks ...