... the Jews attempted to overthrow the Roman Empire. In doing so, the paper will talk about where Judea was before the time of the revolt; the revolt against Antiochus the Syrian leader; the events that lead to the fall of Jerusalem; the Conquering of the Judean Empire and how the Judean civil war played a role in the outcome. Return to Jerusalem After fifty years of exile in Babylon, a small group of ... ware against overwhelming force while again refereeing internal squabbles in the Jewish ranks Since the situation in Jerusalem had been increasingly tense through the mid-sixties; therefore...

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• Grade Level: High School

... and had a central government ruled by one emperor. The West was made up of small kingdoms ruled by the descendants of barbarian invaders. It had its religious center at Rome, and the people embraced the power of the Pope. The East developed a separate church from the one of the Western Christianity. This Orthodox church was closely aligned to the emperor. The result of this was that in the ninth and tenth centuries Christendom was fighting to survive ... work against the much larger group of crusaders. This plan, though did not work out quite the way he had hoped, resulting in he and hi...

• Word Count: 3115
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School