"The Romans created Palestine out of thin air to piss of the Israelis/Jews"
Palestine chronology - PALESTINIAN HISTORY TAPESTRY
721-332 BCE Mesopotamian Hegemony
Palestine was brought under Mesopotamian hegemony; it was conquered in 721 BCE by the Assyrians and in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, who exiled much of the population. During this time, the name Palestine in the form of “Plistu”, deriving from the Philistines, appeared for the first time in Assyrian documents. The Persian emperor Cyrus conquered Palestine and allowed Judeans to return from exile; many of the characteristic ideas and institutions, including the term Jews, emerged during this time; much of the Hebrew Bible was re-written and completed. The name “Palestine”, was mentioned by the 5th century BC Greek historian Herodotus, and appeared later in the Old Testament in the Hebrew form of “Pleshet”, originating from “Pleshteem” (Philistines).
332-63 BCE Hellenistic Period
Alexander the Great conquered Palestine in 332, bringing it under the influence of Hellenistic culture, which impacted all aspects of life, art and architecture, philosophy and religion. After Alexander’s, death his Middle East Empire was divided between two of his generals: Syria and Palestine under the Seleucides, and Egypt under the Ptolemies; Jews, led by the Maccabees, revolted against the enforced hellenization, and an independent Hasmonean kingdom was established in 129 BCE. The Hasmoneans forcibly converted the Idumeans (early Arabs of southern Palestine) to Judaism.
63 BCE-325 CE Roman Period
Following the conquest of Palestine by the Romans in 63 BCE, a process of Romanization began; the establishment of cities, Roman in character such as Jerusalem, Caesarea, Sabatiya, Beisan; A vassal king, Herod the Great (an Idumean Arab by origin) was appointed ruler of Judaea in 37 BCE; During this time the ethnic make of the country included Jews, Samaritans, Idumeans and Nabatean Arabs, Greeks and Phoenicians; the birth of Jesus Christ and the spread of Christianity based on his teachings, and the writing of the New Testament; two major Jewish revolts against the Romans were suppressed, one in 70 CE led to the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem; the second, the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE, led to the razing of Jerusalem to the ground and building a Roman colony, Aelia Capitolina, in its place. |
