After the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago. ... The land of Israel was ruled by Romans, Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and by the British Empire. ... Palestine was the word Romans gave to Israel to wipe out the existence of Jews in Israel. ... Jerusalem remained under Turkish Ottoman Empire rule from 1517 to 1917, and under British rule from 1917 to 1948. ... Rebuilt in 540B.C and then destroyed again by the Roman army in 70 B.C leading to the exile of Jews from Israel. ...

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During the mid-8th century BC, the area came under the control of the Assyrian Empire. ... In 539 BC, after the Persian Empire conquered the Babylonian Empire the area was ruled by the Persia. In 330 BC, Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and the area became part of his empire. ... In 63 BC, the Roman army conquered the area and it became part of the Roman Empire and later the Holy Roman Empire. ... In 1516, The Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamluk armies and they controlled the area until their defeat in World War I. ...

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., when Alexander the Great added Palestine to his empire. ... The Romans set up a local dynasty, the house of Herod, to rule most of Palestine. ... While suppressing a major Jewish revolt, the Romans destroyed the second Temple in 70 C.E. ... From the early fourth century, when Christianity became legal in the Roman empire, Jerusalem developed as a centre of Christian pilgrimage. ( Bahat, 1989, p.230) When Christianity was recognized as a legitimate religion by the Romans, Christians built churches and Christian shrines in Jerusalem. ... Jerusalem was under Roman control until 638 C.E., w...

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Arab Caliphs built these holy places over the site of the Jewish Temple, which the Romans destroyed. ... Stuck under the arm of the Ottoman Empire, the Arabs turned to Britain for help to regain its once cherished lands. ... However, their disbelief would go another step further as the British, then disregarded both agreements and set forth an agreement with the French to greedily partition the Ottoman Empire between themselves; leaving out the Arabs or Jews to have an independent land for self- rule. ...

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They remained a separate entity under the Romans but their independence soon eroded after the unsuccessful revolt of 70 C.E. The destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans was considered more catastrophic than that of the first, but from the ruins emerged the rabbinic movement. ... Abraham is claimed as the founder of the Kaaba, Islam's most sacred shrine- The Jewish emphasis on learning helped to spread knowledge and science in Europe and their "research and zeal contributed largely to the great voyages of discovery . most of the early nautical instruments, as well as t...

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On May 14th, 1948 the state of Israel was formed as the sole Jewish state in the world. The formation of this Jewish state also marked the beginning of a 66 years long and counting conflict between the people of Israel and the Arabs who are now known as the Palestinians. After the holocaust of World...

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